Timothy Keller Every Good Endeavor Quotes

#1. You want a magic wand, so you can walk around smacking people with it until everything's just the way you like it.

Rachel Vincent

#2. The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

Martin Amis

#3. God forbid, one day you two might understand what it's like to lose everything. To have to face it again, afterward - that might be the worst part. Sometimes the past should stay in the past.

City of Savages

Lee Kelly

#4. It does not take the striking pose of a high-fashion model or the strict stance of someone in uniform to earn respect and admiration.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#5. Kacie, look at me. You can do this, trust me." "I can't." I meant that literally. I couldn't will my feet to move even if I wanted them to. "Look in my eyes. Yes, you can. You said you trusted me, now come on. Jump in puddles with me.

Beth Ehemann

#6. You don't magically become a new person as soon as you slip a ring on your finger.

Adam Hamilton

#7. 'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

John Burnside

#8. I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red.

Edan Lepucki

#9. I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

Paul Theroux

#11. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever. That is what the Christian faith promises.

Timothy Keller

#12. Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#13. Today I am not where I am supposed to be BUT I am exactly where I am meant to be. I

Maria B. Bourke

#14. I was, and still am, a dramatic rider. I believe that there's no point in doing something if you aren't going to do it with all of your heart.

Alessandra Torre