Marrow Quotes - Page 4

• Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

  Jack London

  Lying, Cutting, Rocks

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.464, Delphi Classics

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• I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

  Henry Miller

  Broken Heart, Past, Thinking

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

  John Piper

  Strong, Biblical, Deep Love

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• Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

  John Piper

  Strong, Biblical, Scripture

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.104, Multnomah

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• I have always loved kids. They are little adults with so much personality, and it is fun to work with that. Whether that means donating school supplies or medication, or [using my celebrity] to get them a bone marrow transplant, I want to help.

  Rihanna

  Fun, School, Mean

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

  Alex Haley

  Loneliness, Adoption, Vacuums

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since." "this then is my story. i have reread it. it has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies. at this or that twist of it i feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than i care to probe.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Beautiful, Girl, Stars

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• When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Nature, Gardening

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

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• Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

  Janet Fitch

  Heart, Water, Poetry

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

  Libba Bray

  Warning, Walks, Insufferable

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• ... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of your mind and humbly subject your opinion to the opinions of others. Be a fool for the love of God, if you wish to be wiser than Solomon: 'If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise' (I Cor. 3:18).

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Wise, Christian, Pride

  Lorenzo Scupoli (1978). “Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli”, p.94, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• I want God’s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.

  Beth Moore

  Thinking, Want, Way

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• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

  Alex Haley

  Heritage, Who We Are, Lineage

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Issues, Grace

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• To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

  Martin Dugard

  Life Lesson, Training, Mind

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.15, Rodale

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• I was shocked to my marrow the very first time I heard the Church is saying a man can marry a man. What? It is from that shock, that surprise, how is that possible? Is it a kind of experiment or something? They are sick or tired of normal heterosexual relationships? How could that be?

  Peter Akinola

  Tired, Men, Sick

  The Times, July 05, 2007.

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• I won’t die like this again. (Zarek) Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow from it. (Thanatos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Backbone, Thanatos, Dies

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.35, Macmillan

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• In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

  Hafez

  Hopeful, Faces, Bones

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• I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!

  Christopher Isherwood

  Blood, Energy, Delight

  Christopher Isherwood (1964). “A single man”

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• The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

  Rich Mullins

  Sex, Betrayal, Book

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• I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Painting, Bones

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• Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!” “You burn prettily,” I said.

  Roger Zelazny

  Play, Agony, Tonight

  Roger Zelazny (1978). “The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber”

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• He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

  Gena Showalter

  Cells, Skins, Noses

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Twice as Hot”, p.133, HQN Books

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• It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

  John Green

  Should Have, Twenties, Done

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.97, Penguin

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• If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Alive, Planets, Ifs

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