Letters Quotes - Page 19

• I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual equal, though he was handling these amazing questions about God, Jesus, Israel, faith and so on. He continues to be an amazingly stimulating thinker, especially when we try to understand the flow of thought in letter after letter rather than just combing him for a few verses on 'our favourite topics', which, sadly, some Christian teachers do just as some journalists and broadcasters do!

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Brother, Men, Land

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to words to sentences to paragraphs. The whole of one level becomes part of the whole of the next. In other words, natural hierarchies are composed of holons.

  Ken Wilber

  Cells, Order, Levels

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Writing, Heart, Breathing

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cities, Clergy, Introduction

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Weather, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.128

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• Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Essence, Seductive

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• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Talking

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• In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.

  John Steinbeck

  Heart, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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• I am a deeply religious person, but I belong to no denomination. I follow the spirit of God's law, not the letter of the law. One can become so attached to the outward symbols and structure of religion that one forgets its original intent - to bring one closer to God. We can only gain access to the Kingdom of God by realizing it dwells within us as well as in all humanity. Know that we are all cells in the ocean of infinity, each contributing to the others' welfare.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Religious, Ocean, Cells

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.85, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Prayer, Writing, Way

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.107, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  World, Want, Ifs

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• I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

  Mickey Rooney

  Writing, Sunday, Talking

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• Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

  Emily Post

  Writing, Men, Long

  Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”

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• Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

  Mark McKinnon

  Hypocrisy, Scarlet

  "What Really Did Tom Daschle In". www.thedailybeast.com. February 3, 2009.

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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

  Rex Stout

  Book, Stories, Wow

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

  Irving Stone

  Motivation, Writing, Heart

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• Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Water, Feelings, Disappear

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• Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Prayer, Writing, Thinking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.70, Beacon Press

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• You are a fool in four letters, my son.

  Moliere

  Son, Four, Fool

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• Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

  Matt Ridley

  Dna, Four, Recipes

  Matt Ridley (2012). “The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Rainy Day, Silence

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• You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Book, Museums

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.297, University of Virginia Press

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• As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Father, Tombstone

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7092, Delphi Classics

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• Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.

  Stanley Morison

  Art, Islands, House

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