Religion Quote by Geraldine Brooks Download Open image ““His spirit is like a guttering candle”” — Geraldine Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion
“The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Candlelight cast such a delicate beauty. It flickered with emotions and warmed one’s skin and soul.” — Cat Winters Copy Share Image
“My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.” — Normandi Ellis Copy Share Image
“Whosoever a beautiful candle belongs to, protect it against the cruel winds!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“The candle of his life burned out too soon, but it burned so brightly!” — Adriana Girolami Copy Share Image
“There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I recognised a soul that revelled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I cannot picture what the life of the spirit would have been without him. He found me when my mind and soul were hungry… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for “source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women’s academy. To find out,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own theologians have… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“So, you are happy to be a pigeon?” “Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
