Author Quotes - Tumblr Posts
“Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.”
— John Green.
“The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.”
— Guy Kawasaki
“Socks are well-pressed, toenails are shortened, plushies are arranged according to size, expiration dates of the canned food are checked, days up to Christmas are counted, flowers are deadheaded … I guess, now must write.”
— Mimi Gaisser
"Words without poetry lack passion: words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power."
-Brennan Manning
"When discrimination against women goes unchallenged; when minorities are considered second class citizens: when leadership is mastery of mega church principles and not humble service; when the poor and outcasted are not welcomed at the table; when obedience to the Father, loving service to others and simplicity of life are considered exclusive province of elite believers; when evangelical greatness is measured by achievement and not by smallness; and when the rejection and suffering inherent in bold witness to the truth is rationalized, minimized and finally pulverized in cantankerous Bible studies, then Jesus is made an anachronism, His teaching an irrelevance, and His followers an anonymous crowd- their investments and property intact, their credit cards and trinkets secure; a sheepish herd moving in lockstep with the lip serving, self absorbed entrepreneurs who stay busy 'expanding their territories to the glory of God.'"
-Brennan Manning
"One of the surest ways to avoid being happy is to insist on being happy at all costs. The religion of cheerfulness is a cruel religion, and maybe the best way not to go mad is not to mind too much if you do go mad."
-Simon Tugwell
"For someone like myself, in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expressions on people's faces."
Osamu Dazai
"In my efforts to overcome my lifelong struggle with self hatred, the despair of ever being worthy of love, I have been aided immeasurably by trusted and trusting friends who, with no ulterior motive, see something in me that I cannot see in myself. They do not merely tell me; they relate to me in a way that shows that they find me lovable. Learning to trust my friends has been a slow but invaluable process."
-Brennan Manning
Happy New Year - 2024
To celebrate another year, I’ve put together each of these authors’ top quotes from 2023!
The authors were chosen based on the favorite Japanese authors and favorite BSD characters from the 2023 Survey.
It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry ‘masculine’ when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them to describe a man’s sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as ‘feminine.’
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
I thought, “As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.” My activities as jester, a role born of desperation, were extended even to the servants, whom I feared even more than my family because I found them incomprehensible.
Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human
"Honesty is such a precious commodity that is seldom found in the world or the church. Honesty requires the truthfulness to admit the attachment and addictions that control our attention, dominate our consciousness and function as false gods. I can be addicted to vodka or to bring nice, marijuana or being loved, to cocaine or being right, to gambling or relationships, to golf or gossiping. Perhaps my addiction is food, performance, money, popularity, power, revenge, reading, television, tobacco, weight or winning. When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry. Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every day."
-Brennan Manning (Ragamuffin Gospel)
"Death is the last act of self giving, the final repudiation of self, the ultimate act of impoverished ragamuffins before the fierce mercy of God."
-Brennan Manning
"Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection."
-Michael Yaconelli (Messy Spirituality)
📖 Scripture Quotes by Bible Teacher Eli Kittim 📚
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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they’re not absurd.
China Miéville (via potetoisgod)
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.
G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
