A.S. King Quotes
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
For me to live is Christ and to die is gainPhillippians 1:21
Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.
She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.
It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.
As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.
I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.
I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.
Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
You know that saying about how you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? I already did know what I had, and now that she’s gone, I know even more.
The problem we have in the world is that most people don’t take the time to develop themselves, even though they’ll readily spend that time on many useless and irrelevant things.
And how will you afford to buy them in the first place?""I shall save up.""But that will take you years and years and years, " said the twins."I've got years and years and years, " said Sophie.
At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.
Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.
...I am better Thoughtful Prince than King. Potential holds appeal since in its castle wallsOne is protected from the awful shameOf failure.
I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.
All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.
Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?
XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.
No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile
We all have scars, my beautiful one. They make us who we are, and if we let them, they bring us together.
Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?
Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face." --Nero SlyvenskiALL LIGHT WILL FALL
I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care.
I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.
I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.
--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.
When an officer finds themselves arresting pastors that are feeding people who have nothing, they should know they’re on the wrong side.
The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.
There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.
The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.
Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.
Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.
In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.
The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.
Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.
My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.
My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
