Leif Enger Quotes

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• Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.
• You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than…
• Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.
• Routine is worry's sly assassin.
• Fair is whatever God wants to do.
• Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in.…
• We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't…
• Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.
• I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.
• Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
• Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.
• My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also.…
• Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal.…
• When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
• What else exhausts like sustained deception?
• Pride is the rope God allows us all.
• Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh,…
• It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows…
• Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.
• Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

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