Holiness Quote by Catherynne M. Valente Download Open image ““they climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness”” — Catherynne M. Valente ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Holiness Pruning Trees
“Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found the oldest… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.” — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“There might be some brilliant intentionality in it all, that holiness was created to stand in mankind's filth to lift mankind out of that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put… — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but… — Jared Brock Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
