Ronald Blythe quotes

“I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?”
-- Ronald Blythe

Source : Ronald Blythe (2007). “Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford”, p.18, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.”
-- Ronald Blythe

Source : Ronald Blythe (1984). “Characters & Their Landscapes”, Harvest Books

#Acceptance Quotes #Joy Quotes #One Thing Quotes

“The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.”
-- Ronald Blythe

Source : Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.13, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

#Appreciate Quotes #Appreciate Life Quotes #Novel Quotes

“One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.”
-- Ronald Blythe

Source : Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.38, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

#Memories Quotes #Journey Quotes #Past Quotes

“As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.”
-- Ronald Blythe

Source : 'The Age of Illusion' (1963) ch. 12

#Church Quotes #Helping Quotes #Bathroom Quotes

“Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.”
-- Ronald Blythe

#Drama Quotes #Battle Quotes #Facts Quotes

“To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.”
-- Ronald Blythe

Source : Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

#Past Quotes #Age Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.”
-- Ronald Blythe

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Special Quotes

“Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.”
-- Ronald Blythe

#Funny Quotes #Book Quotes #Names Quotes

“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.”

“Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.”