Quotes about Life

Christian faith isn't just a conviction, a feeling and a decision. It invades life so deeply that we have to talk about dying and being born again, which is what corresponds to the death and resurrection of Christ.

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

Prose, in his experience, calls for many more words than poetry. There is no point in embarking on prose if one lacks confidence that one will be alive the next day to carry on with the task.

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

it came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.

All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and be followed to the grave by old friends.

We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away.

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.