Persistent Quotes

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.