“Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.” — Karen Swallow Prior Christianity Copy Share Image
“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing… — Karen Swallow Prior Childhood Copy Share Image
“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.” — Karen Swallow Prior Books Copy Share Image
“If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it.” — Karen Swallow Prior Books Copy Share Image
“I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale… — Karen Swallow Prior Bread Copy Share Image
“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that reading—that is, really reading, interpreting—literature is practice for reading and interpreting… — Karen Swallow Prior Books Copy Share Image
“So if you want to know how you might change the world to God’s glory, read this book and learn the ways… — Karen Swallow Prior Books Copy Share Image
“It’s true of most couples, I suspect, particularly of young ones like us in the fresh stage of love as we were… — Karen Swallow Prior Couples Copy Share Image
“I mistook non-conformity for freedom and in so doing found myself anything but free. For it is in conformity to one's true… — Karen Swallow Prior Conformity Copy Share Image
“Discovering truth is a process that occurs over time, more fully with each idea or book that gets added to the equation.… — Karen Swallow Prior Books Copy Share Image
“I struggled against God. Not as many do. But still I did, in my own way. I didn't doubt his being. I… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Jane exerts what little control she has as an otherwise politically and socially powerless woman of no means through her voice of… — Karen Swallow Prior Identity Copy Share Image
“It is no coincidence that the term “voice” has come to mean in modern usage much more than just the sound made… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Nothing defined the latter half of England's Victorian age more than the way in which Darwin's claims shook the collective faith of… — Karen Swallow Prior Darwinism Copy Share Image
“God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward… — Karen Swallow Prior Language Copy Share Image
“In so doing, I resisted the descent into what the school counselors called low self-esteem. Self-esteem is the dark, distorted shadow of… — Karen Swallow Prior Esteem Copy Share Image
“Brontë was attempting to depict a character that adheres to the unchanging principles of her faith though she refused conformity to the… — Karen Swallow Prior Conformity Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton says, “Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true… — Karen Swallow Prior Career Copy Share Image
“Milton puts it most profoundly when he says, Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by… — Karen Swallow Prior Bible Copy Share Image
“When my youth group leader told all of the kids in youth group that he had burned all of his rock albums,… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and… — Karen Swallow Prior Books Copy Share Image
