Routine is worry's sly assassin. Leif Enger More Quotes by Leif Enger More Quotes From Leif Enger Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. Leif Enger heroismpaniccuriosity Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all. Leif Enger love-isbelievefacts Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth. Leif Enger climbing-uppainreal Pride is the rope God allows us all. Leif Enger ropepride I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers. Leif Enger octobergoldair You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any. Leif Enger crysintears Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder. Leif Enger dadkingsbook Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen Leif Enger unseendadthinking Fair is whatever God wants to do. Leif Enger fairswant Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth. Leif Enger yeastrisingknows So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies. Leif Enger our-destinydestiny Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map. Leif Enger ignoranceexamplelooks It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world. Leif Enger sickpeopleworld Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust? Leif Enger disgustingworstexpression Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will. Leif Enger single-personsawsbelief Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing? Leif Enger failingshowspeople Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that. Leif Enger griefmotherthinking Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave. Leif Enger wisemenpast We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day. Leif Enger miraclechildrenlooks Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. Leif Enger painrealpeople
