Jeffrey Lent > Quotes

“He doubted the hand of God but did not discount it - discarding only the God of the pulpit and the pious.”
― Jeffrey Lent, Lost Nation

“Calamities and opportunities all jumbled up together and no sure way to distinguish one from the other.”
― Jeffrey Lent, Lost Nation

“The law is generous. It is lawyers with their angles, hopes, dreams, wild expectations that make the law seem a rigid thing.”
― Jeffrey Lent, A Slant of Light

“As if the weather knew the calendar the last day of August broke with a hard killing frost. Where the sun fell the world spangled, autumn arriving in glacial brilliance, almost suggesting snow over the grass and low shrubbery. Where the sun has not yet struck it was ghostly, a pewter finish over the sagging grass and wilted goldenrod stems. The pods of milkweed were brittle and broke open to release their slight spherical webs of seed onto any straggle of breeze. Smoke streamed white straight up from chimney tops and mist obscured the lake, hanging in sheets of cold vapor that disintegrated slowly from the top down as the sun came over the hills. A third-quarter moon hung against the endless fathoms of a colbalt heaven, the moon a quartzite river stone.”
― Jeffrey Lent

“It is nothing do with God, it's what men do in the name of God. In their craze of wanting to be known and loved by God. Of what they fear.”
― Jeffrey Lent

“But there are times in the world where a stack of truth can be undone by one shining nugget of harder truth. I am not saying it makes sense to us outside those holding that nugget, only that when it's in your hand, you hold it and know it for what it is.”
― Jeffrey Lent, A Slant of Light

“The most all people do wrong things in their lives but it was the ones who had the strength to admit to doing so that would trust.... you do the right thing, however hard. Otherwise, it turns back upon you. Always.”
― Jeffrey Lent, A Slant of Light

“There came time and then a slight pang at the thought of stepping off the earth that he loved so deeply, the work of the land and the beasts that made that work but also the small daily beauties of life, a summer shower on a hot day, snow whirling over the land in a flail of wind, the long spreads of geese across equinox skies, the workings of his own mind within but also around all such things as he made sense of his own works and questions and doubts.”
― Jeffrey Lent

“Since the war, little in the world makes sense and once you see part of it that way, all else follows.”
― Jeffrey Lent, A Slant of Light

“grandfather”
― Jeffrey Lent, A Slant of Light