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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 16efd40 | You're down now, Jordan, but only for awhile. I think God is giving you a chance to really look at your life and decide just how you want to live it." That's right, said Kara. You can keep on living it for yourself or invite God to take over." | Melody Carlson | ||
| 2cd7fbe | Caroline smiled and waved and blew kisses to both of them as she exited the building. But once outside she felt sad and let down, like the party was over and it was time to go home. And yet she remembered her promise to God. She was going to trust that he knew what was best for her. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 4a6087e | The best way to get past something was usually to simply do something else, right? | Melody Carlson | ||
| d7d56d4 | Next time, you might want to look before you leap. | Melody Carlson | ||
| c757e9b | Stay on good terms with each other,' " he read slowly, putting emphasis on each word, "'held together by love." | Melody Carlson | ||
| 0e16184 | Why, some have extended hospitality to angels without ever knowing it! | Melody Carlson | ||
| 7b86845 | all's well that ends well. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 60d6881 | some of our descendents | Melody Carlson | ||
| 449c7a4 | I'd rather have a few wonderful years with love than a long life with animosity. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 913ca38 | She led him into the family room and introduced him to Alice and Jeremy. Sensing Tommy's eyes on her and | Melody Carlson | ||
| 98e95e8 | Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 377e657 | Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed, Lev. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 32c07f4 | God killed my little sister. That's right, Lev. A little girl, suddenly sick and dead. Everything He touches is destroyed. Casagemas, Apollinaire, Eva, Max Jacob. How do you worship Him, Lev? He's the true destroyer. Satan works out in the open, cards on the table. He gives it to you straight, no games. God plays at sweetness and goodness, and kills you. Who's worse, Satan or God? Satan at least has the decency to show us his real face. So .. | Chaim Potok | ||
| a56a303 | I think of the Jewish novelist Chaim Potok, whose artistic hero Asher Lev searches for imagery to express the pain of modern Judaism. The only thing he can find that will do--to the predictable horror of his community--is the crucifixion scene, which he paints in fresh and shocking ways. I think of the way in which the first Harry Potter novel ends with the disclosure that Harry had been rescued, as a young child, by the loving self-sacrifi.. | N.T. Wright | ||
| cb755d3 | The sadness grew within her until she seemed to exist only as a dark nimbus of melancholy, and even Max could no longer cheer her with his talk and his | Chaim Potok | ||
| be2e502 | We have hurt you, yet you love us. We have exiled you, yet you are tied to us. "Though He slay me, yet will I have faith in Him." | Chaim Potok | ||
| e2c380f | As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them--'ordinary things' is a better expression. That is the way the world is. | Chaim Potok | ||
| a662542 | I like his optimism,' I said. 'I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruins of Jerusalem, and the others began to cry, he laughed and said that just as the prophecy of the destruction of the temple was fulfilled, so the prophecy of the rebuilding would also be fulfilled. I like that. | jewish optimism prophecy temple | Chaim Potok | |
| 31a2bf9 | In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane. | Alan Judd | ||
| 54495c0 | How can we expect to know everything about God?" He looked at me, his eyes narrowing. "I call that ambiguity," I said. "Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to the darkness, different perspectives on the same thing. Nothing in this whole world has only one side to it. Everything is like a kaleidoscope. That's what I'm trying to capture in my art. That's what I mean by ambiguity." | Chaim Potok | ||
| d88ba41 | Verbal fraud is worse than monetary fraud. | Chaim Potok | ||
| e8c6a6b | Excuse me, you taught trope in Theresienstadt? | Chaim Potok | ||
| 40bfd2e | Asher, an animal cannot help what he does. A human being is able to control himself if he wills it. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 777ff9f | Life connects us, Benjamin, not artifice. | Chaim Potok | ||
| acc7821 | The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn't make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an artist, and an artist draws what he sees and feels and thinks. But they tried to confiscate the drawings anyway and | Chaim Potok | ||
| 875eb21 | A man does not always remain at the same stage. He is always ascending or descending. When he reaches the top, he must concern himself with the probability that he will fall. When he reaches the bottom, he must strive once again to climb to the top. That is the nature of man. When the soul of a man is in its darkest night, he must strive constantly for new light. When one thinks there is only an end, that is when one must struggle for the n.. | Chaim Potok | ||
| a4063c3 | But I do not know how else the work can be done. To touch a person's heart, you must see a person's face. One cannot reach a soul through a telephone. | Chaim Potok | ||
| e548ccd | And now you'll be able to sail right through to the end." "I've already written the end. It was the beginning I couldn't write." "The story you just told me is part of your beginning?" "It is the myself that predates what I am now." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 778bce1 | A ram comes always as an astonishment. Do you know what a ram is, Benjamin? R-A-M. A random act of menschlichkeit. | Chaim Potok | ||
| e6a4489 | Obstacles are given us in order to make our desire even stronger. The more a thing is hidden from man, the more he desires it, and the greater the chance he will one day discover it. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 5802d80 | DW: Some critics have written that they don't admire your so-called simple style. You have contended that your writing is a result of much rewriting and much revision and is deliberate. CP: The style is simplicity for the sake of complexity. Whoever feels that it is a "simple style" has to look into it and find the right way. Of course the style has become over the years much more complex and much more simple. Two fundamental things about t.. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 9c1c4f7 | It's my world, best friend. And I haven't seen anything outside that's better. | Chaim Potok | ||
| c310643 | There's a rabbi in the Talmud who even says there's no atonement for lashon hara. | Chaim Potok | ||
| de3cff0 | The tiny color planes in the Cezanne, like the pieces of a riddle, exquisitely explored, investigated, probed, resolved, each daub of color another piece of his answer to the greatest riddle of all: how we see and think the world. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 7205ff1 | What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?" "Babel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel's The Red Cavalry and Camus's The Stranger." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 4803aa0 | Gossip, gossip, gossip. Rumors. Tongues. 'Life and death are in the power of the tongue,' " he quoted in Hebrew." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 5a8af64 | An Austrian philosopher named Jean Amery, tortured by the Gestapo because of his activity with the Belgian resistance and then deported to Auschwitz because he was a Jew, wrote that anyone who has been tortured remains forever tortured and can never again be at ease in the world. One's faith in humanity is broken and can never be acquired again. | Chaim Potok | ||
| fd79850 | Devorah told me, "Our daughter is grown," and there were tears in her eyes." | Chaim Potok | ||
| cb048e8 | I've never known of a serious artist who was happy. Except maybe Rubens. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 63e88a1 | Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 6f0028c | A person has to have a reason for living, and the best reason is another person. Together they can make a plan for their lives. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 3ac40d5 | It hurts a father to see a son this way. It makes no difference what age the son is; it hurts. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 07bdd6c | I call that ambiguity," I said. "Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to the darkness, different perspectives on the same things. Nothing in this whole world has only one side to it. Everything is like a kaleidoscope. That's what I'm trying to capture in my art. That's what I mean by ambiguity." | Chaim Potok | ||
| c492cba | On one of the walls of his office hung his undergraduate degree from Columbia and his law degree from the Harvard School of Law. | Chaim Potok |