103 Quotes by Roseanna M. White

The seed may be the plant only in potential, but without it, there would be no plant at all.

Her eyes . . . they were much like her father’s. They carried within them a knowledge of the storms always rumbling and flashing on the horizon. An understanding of these times, the good and the bad. A . . . a seeing. He didn’t know what else to call it. Not a gathering of the facts, of the patterns that he sought. It was something different. Something he couldn’t name. But something that made him think she understood things he didn’t

Names...they matter to us. They shape our souls in ways I've never fully understood. But have you pondered the power of them?

I do know that when we are told to leave vengeance to the Lord, it is not so that we can glory in it when it comes. . . .God's wrath is a mighty and terrible thing. we should not be wishing it on others--we should be trying to save them from it.

She had a feeling he was like a matryoshka doll too--a placid exterior that hid layers of secrets and mysteries. And she couldn't help but wonder what lay beneath this carefully crafted shell.

They wouldn't, if they realized that socialist "freedom" involved killing anyone who held a different view. That was no freedom. That was the worst form of tyranny - the kind that lied about what it was.

Oh! Yes. Precise nomenclature is how we can identify and separate one species from another. When something is given a unique name, it's... well, it's like a tip of the hat, in a way, isn't it? It's us acknowledging that it is unlike anything else previously named. It is something unique.

Isn’t it tiring, being such a blighter all the time?

Sometimes the Lord answered prayers at an alarming rate.