Alexandria Quote by Charles Kingsley

“It was given to Abba Anthony to see a doctor in Alexandria who was simply and humbly doing what God had given him to…

— Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs…

— Frank Herbert

“The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past…

— Jon Krakauer

If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather,…

— Lois Duncan

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of…

— Robert Byron

They draped him in an ancient !ag, lying where he fell. Untouched by rain or sun, the elements repelled.

— London Elektricity

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does…

— Anthony de Mello

“the Dead Sea valley, at more than thirteen hundred feet below sea level, was tranquil. A desolate landscape, but strangely it was where Jack…

— Glenn Meade

“At the edge of the sea he took her to the ruins of the synagogue of Capernaum. Here, Jesus walked and taught and healed.…

— Leon Uris

It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the…

— Christopher Paolini

“The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices, his dark…

— Michelle Frost

“Even in some older literature, such as in the writings of Byzantine historian Philostorgius in the fifth century, Ararat was suggested as the ark’s…

— Ken Ham