#where

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. ↗

— Charles Tennyson Turner

#altar #being #current #did #felt

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#always #appeal #circumstances #colored #desire

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#again #characters #consciously #end #ever

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present. ↗

— William Tyndale

#am #blood #body #bound #bread

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#give #god #meaning #need #order

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#cold #constantly #coolness #could #difficult

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#corner #god #my soul #place #soul

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#get #get married #i #kids #married

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. ↗

— John Updike

#american life #consists #driving #hell #home