Marilyn Chandler Mcentyre Quotes

So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Conversation is an exchange of gifts. Native American tribal wisdom teaches that when you encounter a person on your life path, you must seek to find out what gifts you have for one another so that you may exchange them before going your separate ways. This seems true even of daily encounters with those we know well. We come into one another's presence bearing whatever harvest of experience the day has offered, and we foster relationship by making a gift of what we have received. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Listen into the silences where the best words begin. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

The story is told of Mother Theresa that when an interviewer asked her. "What do you say when you pray?" she answered, "I listen." The reporters paused a moment, then asked, "Then what does God say?" and she replied, "He listens." It is hard to imagine a more succinct way to get at the intimacy of contemplative prayer. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

A good conversationalist directs attention, inspires, corrects, affirms, and empowers others. It is a demanding vocation that involves attentiveness, skilled listening, awareness of one's own interpretive frames, and a will to understand and discern what is true. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Like metaphor, paradox as a habit of mind preserves us from simplistic linearity and literalism and keeps us attentive to the complex ways in which, so often, the opposite is also true. This habit of mind is deeply biblical; indeed, to listen for the uses of paradox in Jesus' recorded teachings is to recognize how it always points us to a higher plane of understanding. To grasp paradox is a prerequisite not only for fathoming spiritual truths (and every spiritual tradition resorts to paradox to get at what is true as if there is no more direct route to truth), but also for thinking complexly and compassionately about this-worldly issues that affect us daily: how the rich may be poor; how power is a form of vulnerability; how saying no may be a way of saying yes. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

For he will speak peace to his people. . . . psalm 85:8 Peace is a language. To "speak peace" is very different from speaking of peace. To speak of peace is to reason about it. But to speak peace is to impart it. The promise in this psalm is that God will make peace with us and among us. But the phrase also serves as a reminder that our words are acts. When we speak, we may stir up animosities, suspicions, jealousies, or old hurts - or we may impart peace. Peace may be "uttered" not only in gentleness of voice when we speak, but in the choice of words that reframe, redirect, or surprise us into reconsidering. Sometimes a way of describing the problem or conflict as an opportunity for invention or imagination or learning can enable those who are stuck in a point of view to see a new way. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. "Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people."
--from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans ~ Marilyn Bay Wentz

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The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing. ~ Raymond Chandler

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated. ~ Kyle Chandler

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. ~ Marilyn Monroe

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace. ~ Matt Chandler

Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye. ~ Marilyn Bergman

We were not given our unique talents and abilities to earn a living.
They were given to us to create a life. ~ Marilyn Jenett

rolled the door shut, and then it really began to rain. ~ Gertrude Chandler Warner

Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves. ~ Marilyn Johnson

I don't know which me that I love, got no reflection. ~ Marilyn Manson

To say goodbye is to die a little. ~ Raymond Chandler

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

Mia: Why did you leave?
Sam: What do you mean, 'why did I leave'?
Mia: Well, if I was lost in the forest with someone who looked like that, I'd want to stay lost
Sam: I wasn't lost
Mia: Whatever ~ Marilyn Phillips

Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it. ~ Elizabeth Chandler

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect. ~ Matt Chandler

He was fucking with us pretty hard in the saferoom," Sandra called from the front of the plane's undercarriage.
"Aw, Sandy, that wasn't fucking," Simon said. "That was just, I don't know, really obnoxious foreplay or something. ~ M. Chandler

Life isn't always about fireworks. Your fireworks will come, Sarah. And they'll fizzle out just as fast. Life's an experience, not a destination. All of us have the same destination, but not one of us has an identical experience. You'll find someone who will be there when the fireworks fizzle out and the sky turns black and love you just the same. That's the one to hold onto. ~ Marilyn Grey

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say. ~ Marilyn Manson

I ordered a hot chocolate and Chandler got a black coffee. He smiled over at me. "Still no love for coffee?"
I shook my head. "Nah, why have bitter and gross when I can have sweet and delicious? ~ Lisa Kessler

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate. ~ Marilyn Yalom

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker. ~ Dave Barry

Hope doesn't need to come tomorrow, it can come right now. ~ Marilyn Grey

Every single person, whether religious or irreligious, actively worships. They have identified something bigger than themselves that they believe is worthy of their money, time, and the meditations of their hearts. ~ Matt Chandler

Living in an age of casual sex, serial commitments, and frequent divorce, we are all in danger of becoming as jaded as anceien regime aristocrats. Does the notion of undying love still have any meaning for us today? ~ Marilyn Yalom

The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night-to see that the guests didn't bring their own liquor instead of buying it from the house. ~ Raymond Chandler

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. ~ Marilyn Monroe

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Purpose can be built, strengthened, and made more inspiring every day.
We are totally responsible for our own sense of purpose. We can go
inside our own spirit
and create it, or not. The energy of our lives is wholly dependent on
how much purpose we're willing to create. ~ Steve Chandler

The source of their confident certainty was simply God alone. God Himself. As long as they were in fellowship with Him, they could forever expect His blessings to just roll downhill and right into their lives. He was their righteousness, He was their innocence, He was their sense of identity, He was their dignity and honor. He was their peace. And He was their prosperity. He was the reason they felt no fear. So even though we're confined today to a much different time zone than the one Adam and Eve set their clocks to - back before the Fall struck thirteen and threw everything out of whack - the winning response to fear and anxiety remains completely one-dimensional. It's Him - not the favorable resolution of our problems. It's Him - not the removal of every worst-case scenario. It's Him - not an easy, breezy, adversity-free lifestyle. It's Him. It has always been and will always be Him. ~ Matt Chandler

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. ~ Raymond Chandler

I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac. ~ Marilyn Monroe

They just sat there looking back at me. The orange queen was clacking her typewriter. Cop talk was no more treat for her than legs to a dance director. They had the calm weathered faces of healthy men in hard condition. They had the eyes they always have, cloudy and grey like freezing water. The firm set mouth, the hard little wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, the hard hollow meaningless stare, not quite cruel and a thousand miles from kind. The dull ready-made clothes, worn without style, with a sort of contempt; the look of men who are poor and yet proud of their power, watching always for ways to make it felt, to shove it into you and twist it and grin and watch you squirm, ruthless without malice, cruel and yet not always unkind. What would you expect them to be? Civilization had no meaning for them. All they saw of it was the failures, the dirt, the dregs, the aberrations and the disgust. ~ Raymond Chandler