Leon Surmelian quotes

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.
-- Leon Surmelian

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God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.