Maaza Mengiste quotes

“When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?”
-- Maaza Mengiste

#Waiting Quotes #Mercy Quotes #Gods Will Quotes

“We must not be anything other than what we are.”
-- Maaza Mengiste

Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

“A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.”
-- Maaza Mengiste

Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.208, W. W. Norton & Company

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes

“The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.”
-- Maaza Mengiste

Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

#Love Is Quotes

“The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.”
-- Maaza Mengiste

Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

#Thinking Quotes #Land Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.”
-- Maaza Mengiste

#Book Quotes #Reader Quotes

“Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 23, 2014

“I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.199, Thomas Nelson Inc

“We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”

“God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.”

“Marvellous mercies and infinite love.”

“The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.”

“I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.”

“The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.”

“God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.”