Christian Quote by John Updike Download Open image “A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian Christianity Describe Novelist Tries World
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“The great potential of Christian literature [is] to depict the material world, the physical world of the senses, while also revealing behind it another… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
“The world is so different when viewed through the light of God’s Word.” — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
“The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The Christian worldview is liturgical as well as cerebral; it culminates with an everlasting crescendo of praise.” — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr 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
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting. — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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