Water To Wine Quotes

#1. Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.

Zach Braff

#2. I ask is there anything with a little kick to drink. And this old lady says to me, We don't approve of alcohol. And I says, Well, ma'am, we need to remember Jesus did turn water to wine. And she says, And we're none too crazy about that stunt, neither.

Smith Henderson

#3. I imagine the wedding guests at Cana were awed and pleased by Jesus turning the water to wine. I also suspect that many guests in detox centers around the world today would think it a much greater miracle if, at least for them, the good Lord would retroactively turn the wine back to water.

Joe Beaton

#4. Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.

Kaspar Hauser

#5. The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

Pliny The Elder

#6. I remember what it feels like to come with open hands and heart and I am, again, awed by the Story of in the beginning, water into wine, love held by nails, the veil torn, resurrected life. He is real, more real than anything I will ever see with my eyes, hear with my ears, or touch with my hands.

Lisa Whittle

#7. Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?

Karlheinz Deschner

#8. [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. Pieces don't fit. Wine runs out. Water bottles burst. These are facts of life. But Jesus responds with this invitation: "Bring your problems to me.

Max Lucado

#10. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.

Francesca Lia Block

#11. For why should not the wine of their own country satisfy men's desires, unless they were to import water also, like the foolish Persian kings?

Clement Of Alexandria

#12. Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

Richard Dawkins

#13. I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.

Emily Bronte

#14. I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

Diane Keaton

#15. Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

Richard Crashaw

#16. My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

Lisa See

#17. And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#18. Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them cold clear water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes.

George R R Martin

#19. Yeah Jesus could turn water in to wine, but he didn't share. Douche.

Anthony Langston

#20. It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, green as green milk, blue as laundry water, wine dark.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut

Peter Gabriel

#22. If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.

Simon Jenkins

#23. Immediately, the water turned into wine. This was the first recorded miracle of Jesus' ministry on earth and I want to remind you that His miracles did not stop there. He will also do miracles in your life if you obey Him, and offer yourself as a clean pot He can fill.

Joyce Meyer

#24. Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply one thing has to be remembered: do whatsoever you like, but do it with full consciousness, and then you will not go astray.

Rajneesh

#25. In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

Herman Melville

#27. Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.

Joanne Harris

#28. Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

Clive Barker

#29. One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Victor Hugo

#30. The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

Jodi Picoult

#31. If you're Native American and you pray to the wolves, you're a savage. If you're African and you pray to your ancestors, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that's just common sense.

Trevor Noah

#32. There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Coleman Young

#33. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took a drink of wine. Suddenly

Charles Bukowski

#34. Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

Ernest Hemingway,

#35. The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

Benjamin Franklin

#36. Where, then, is our orator running off to, who was going to speak about a palm, but talks of nothing but a gourd? It started as a wine jar, why does it end as a water jug?

Martin Luther

#37. [Barnabas speaks] "I will drink water."
"Water? But water is not fit for men to drink. For the cattle, for birds and beast, but a man needs ale ... or wine, if you are a Frenchman." [William answers]

Louis L'Amour

#38. Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.

Ursula Goodenough

#39. Now, I will drink no German beer. The white wine of the country, with a little soda-water; perhaps occasionally a glass of Ems or potash. But beer, never - or, at all events, hardly ever." It is a good and useful resolution, which I recommend to all travellers. I

Jerome K. Jerome

#40. To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

Jules Renard

#41. They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

D. L. Hughley

#42. I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

Robert Mondavi

#43. If anyone thinks that I amn't divine
He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine
But have to drink water and wish it were plain
That I make when the wine becomes water again.

James Joyce

#44. The inward working of God's goodness tends to produce an uncontrollable wildfire when He takes the helm of clinical, religious sobriety - when He turns our water into wine.

John Crowder

#45. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

G.K. Chesterton

#46. We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready to drink death like wine.

G.K. Chesterton

#47. 23Don't drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often.

Anonymous

#48. I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Michael Tolkin

#49. Why, when a man has friends, they are not only to offer him a glass of wine, but, moreover, to prevent his swallowing three or four pints of water unnecessarily!

Alexandre Dumas

#50. Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

Ring Lardner Jr.

#51. In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

John Calvin

#52. To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Frederick William Robertson

#53. Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#54. The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves.

Paul-Emile Victor

#55. If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

Mads Mikkelsen

#56. (My dove my little one
tonight there will be wine and drunken suitors
from the logging camps to pin you down
in the outlying lands of sleep
where all roads lead back to the home-village
and water may be walked on)

Al Purdy