Winsome Quotes

• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

  Edna Ferber

  Women, Memorable, Sight

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.159, Vintage

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• She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Wife, Handsome

  Robert Burns (1856). “The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed”, p.247

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• Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Graduation, Sweet, Yield

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• If you want to win some, you have to be winsome - be nice, be friendly and then appropriately apply the gospel.

  Greg Laurie

  Nice, Winning, Friendly

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

  John W. Gardner

  Children, Age, Six

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• Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.

  Adam Gopnik

  Sweet, Strong, Writing

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• In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

  Charles L. Allen

  Mean, Grace, Overcoming

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• ‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it

  Max Lucado

  Love You, Winning, Loser

  Max Lucado (2009). “3:16: The Numbers of Hope”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Past, Smell

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.52, Anchor

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• when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  War, Trying, World

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

  John Piper

  Broken, Grace, Trials

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• We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

  Garrison Keillor

  Husband, Father, Caring

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• There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Flower, Childhood, Influence

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• Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's like the mutant stepchild of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King, mixing a truly unique paranormal coming-of-age story with a quirky cast of offbeat noir characters into a novel that's simply unforgettable... and hilariously original. A supernatural crime story, blazing with creative intrigue... don't miss it.

  Michael Arnzen

  Kings, Fun, Character

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• The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Truth, Blessed, Worship

  "The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1948.

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• A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.

  Gabriel Fackre

  Wise, Doe, Helping

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