Mark Salzman quotes

“The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.”
-- Mark Salzman

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Worry Quotes

“If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.”
-- Mark Salzman

#Paradise Quotes #Hell Quotes #Thee Quotes

“If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and you can build on it. It's like the difference between shooting one hoop and having it go in by accident and saying later, 'I shot a basket,' - and practicing so much you can do it whenever you want.”
-- Mark Salzman

#Writing Quotes #Differences Quotes #Done Quotes

“When one heart moves the whole web trembles.”
-- Mark Salzman

Source : Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.50, Vintage

#Moving Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.”
-- Mark Salzman

Source : Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.3, Vintage

#Moments Quotes #Ends Quotes

“What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles”
-- Mark Salzman

#Struggle Quotes #People Quotes #What If Quotes

“Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?”
-- Mark Salzman

Source : Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.153, Vintage

#Eye Quotes #Differences Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).”
-- Mark Salzman

Source : Mark Salzman (2007). “True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall”, p.155, Vintage

#Compassion Quotes #Our World Quotes #Justice Quotes

“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.”

“I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.”

“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

“There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.”

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

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.”

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

“It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.”

“I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like”