Walter Wangerin Quotes

#1. For the story that shapes a child's universe also shapes the child - and by the child, the man thereafter. The memory of a burning fairy tale can govern behavior as truly as remembered fire will caution against fire forever. - WALTER WANGERIN

Sarah Arthur

#2. So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#3. He went wordless, and wordless he sat beside her. He knew the size of her sorrow.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#4. Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy ... for all people." ... That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

Walter Wangerin

#6. Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Walter Wangerin

#7. A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called 'interpassivity': the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity.

Mark Fisher

#8. Neither does she have a name
none that I could find even in my most persistent researches: Julian's gentle lady, I mean; she whom I sought and chased and wooed (as it were) down a warren of historical tunnels.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#9. She had caused to surround us the very atmosphere of "home," so that however far we traveled, however strange the territory, I was "home" as long as I was with her.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#10. A grudge may be strong. But a grudge isn't strength!

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#11. You are married. Healing is not a profession but a way of life. Your spouse is not your patient but your flesh. Healing, then, is a task for your heart as well as your head and your hand.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#12. Her ballad did nothing to make the serpants lovely. Her ballad hid nothing of their dread. But the music itself spoke of faith and certainty; the melody announced the presence of God.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#13. Let heaven intrude upon our earthly affairs to rip our attentions from the world to you again.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#14. And the strongest trust is built by the smallest actions, the keeping of the little promises. It is the constant truthfulness, the continued dependability, the remembrance of minor things, which most inspire confidence and faith.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#15. Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic - and available to every reader of this age.

Walter Wangerin

#16. In your attempts to heal this beloved one, the Holy Spirit finds opportunity to keep the promise of Jesus - and indeed, to heal.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#17. But the talk of dialogue involves the work of knowing, acknowledging the other, of shaping speech toward him, for her. It is neither done or done well until it has been well received by that particular hearer.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#18. How many battles make a war?

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#19. True "volunteering," then, obeys no law, seeks no returns, pays no debts, plans no praise for yourself, nor proves your goodness

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#20. What we do Yesterday is done, believing in the things for Tomorrow is a maybe, what we do today hopefully we can remember it tomorrow as a memorable day.

Jan Jansen

#21. I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Albert Einstein

#22. Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.

William Monahan

#23. These same oxygen atoms, normally found in pairs (O2), also combined in threes to form ozone (O3) in the upper atmosphere, which serves as a shield that protects Earth's surface from most of the Sun's molecule-hostile ultraviolet photons.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#24. the sun, the Nigerians are loading up for the day. One balances a carved elephant on one finger, another

Sara Alexi

#25. There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.

Ashley Jensen

#26. Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They answer with the curious sentence, "Here I am". So much is in that sentence: readiness to respond, a willing servitude, an offering of oneself to the other.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#27. The world flips and changes constantly; the best we can do is remain ourselves

Dawn O'Porter

#28. For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'

Jenny Lewis

#29. God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

Walter Wangerin

#30. Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#31. I agreed Paul knew his limits. But I never believed he'd choose to live within them.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#32. I am a pilot and I run a Medical Transport Squad. That means, for most of my life I am living it up in the air." -- USN CAPT Joe Woodhaven

L.A. Kragie

#33. All the world's an empty place when one voice weeps uncomforted.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#34. Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

Ovid

#35. The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#36. Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

Walter Wangerin

#37. Work at getting organized like a hobby. Set aside a certain amount of time each day (or whatever time your budget will allow). While it may indeed take a fair amount of time to establish order, once it is achieved, you will save more time than you have ever spent.

Deniece Schofield

#38. Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#39. Volunteering also honours the sort of work your spouse is obliged to do if you choose cheerfully to do it for him or her. It abolished distinctions and degrees of value. All work is valuable in the house where no work is held in contempt, and where love is not kept in hiding.

Walter Wangerin Jr.