Tash Aw quotes

  • Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.
    -- Tash Aw

    #Heart #Men #Restless

  • Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction
    -- Tash Aw

    #Country #Years #Generations

  • The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

  • No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

  • But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

  • He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

  • Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

  • God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

  • We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

  • Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  • Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

  • Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.