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“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.”
John Piper“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses”
a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)”
Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)”
Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death“God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.”
Voltaire“If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.”
Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines without reservation (p. 97)”
Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.”
Bashō Matsuo“Isn't it so sad that a lot of the teenagers of this generation know most of the lyrics to countless of worldly songs, but don't know any verse in the bible?”
“Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.”
Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working