“Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.”
Os Guinness (1941) American writer
“A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.”
The Poisonwood Bible (1998).
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American author, poet and essayist 1955Related quotes
“These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
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“A scar on the hand the hand might be quite continental,
But demons are a ghoul's best friend.”
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[Vampira (Maila Nurmi)—Rare 1988 TV Interview, James Dean, 21 December 2016, Alan Eichler, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKIUxdgXsa8] (quote at 3:42)
“The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
2 June 1824
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
Jerome David Salinger book Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)
Nicholas of Cusa book De Docta Ignorantia
trans. Jasper Hopkins (Minneapolis: Arthur J Banning Press, 1990), 119 – 20.
De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) (1440)
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 14 (p. 160)
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 296
