Forbidden fruit Quote by Jacquelle Crowe

“It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The fruit in the garden was not about knowledge, but about not knowing, about looking into a face and having no idea whether you…

— Naeem Murr

That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and…

— Brother Lawrence

“I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting. This afternoon the possession of God has…

— Frank Laubach

“Here was the wild God who made nature heave and bellow. The violent shadow that followed Jesus through his tender ministry and could test…

— Andrew Michael Hurley

“I felt the breath of God go cold against my skin.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“reminding him of what he once intended to be before he ate the apple of wisdom and became as the gods and devils.”

— Grace Livingston Hill

“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to…

— Madeline Miller

“It was the hour of prayer. Black-beetles exploded against the walls like crackers. More than a dozen crawled over the tiles with injured wings.…

— Graham Greene

“If there was a God up there, which there wasn’t, why was it that he worked so hard to identify whatever thing a man…

— Richard Herley

“I knew: the gods turned once, in their madness, Men into things, not killing humane senses. You’ve been turned in to my reminiscences To…

— Anna Akhmatova