Wineskins Quotes

#1. She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead, he seemed to land heavily within her, like a black stone falling.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

Nancy Ruth

#3. You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins.

Rob Bell

#4. Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine.

Richard Rohr

#5. A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Eckhart Tolle

#6. Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.

A.W. Tozer

#7. He pulled out a dagger from ... she wasn't sure where. Did he have that in his loin cloth? What else does he have in there?
(Amy's thoughts, The Witching Pen)

Dianna Hardy

#8. You're fearless when you're a kid.

Catherine Hardwicke

#9. I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer.

Cameron Diaz

#10. You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

Lloyd Jones

#11. It's really easy to insist that people read the manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it, or for not caring enough to pay attention.

Seth Godin

#12. Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Chin-Ning Chu

#13. And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.

Theodore Roethke

#14. A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

Alexis De Tocqueville