41 Quotes by Karen Swallow Prior

God can carry on his own work, though all such poor tools as I were broken.

What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith.

I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.

But the virtue of patience entails much more than merely waiting. The essence of patience is the willingness to endure suffering.

Just as water, over a long period of time, reshapes the land through which it runs, so too we are formed by the habit of reading good books well.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; “these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions”; we are what we repeatedly do.

To read well is not to scour books for lessons on what to think. Rather, to read well is to be formed in how to think.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.”65.

God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward that discovery is the story of this book. I thought my love of books was taking me away from God, but as it turns out, book were the backwoods path back to God, bramble-filled and broken, yes, but full of truth and wonder.