Scott Hayden > Scott's Quotes

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“One word, Ma'am," he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. "One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one more thing to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that's a small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

“the church was an international institution long before globalization.”
― Shane Claiborne

“We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.”
― Viv Grigg

“The Western church needs to regain its confidence in the role of outsiders, relocators who come in humility and grace to learn first and then to offer a different perspective.”
― Craig & Nayhouy Greenfield, Living Mission: The Vision and Voices of New Friars

“You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.”
― Craig & Nayhouy Greenfield

“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We are shaped by what we're saturated in, which is why incarnation must always be paired with devotion.”
― Phileena Heuertz and Darren Prince

“...caught up in our own busyness, frantically running from one crisis to the next in a cycle that looks less like loving the Messiah and more like trying to become one.”
― Phileena Heuertz and Darren Prince

“In the mainstream, with its illusion of unlimited relational possibilities, we can counter dissatisfaction in relationships by simply moving on in search of the "right people." But community...demands we cultivate friendships with people we might not choose ordinarily. Founding friendship on commitment rather than "chemistry" often requires adjustment...At the end of the day, however, we have found that any loss of chemistry in relationships is more than made up for with gains in meaning.”
― Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes

“Discover the fulfillment of intimate relationships with flesh-and-blood neighbors and teammates in concrete place and time, and we escape the pressure of mainstream media to channel intimacy only as virtual embrace.”
― Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes

“Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
― Puck Magazine

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Secret of the Indian

“Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Secret of the Indian

“The law of God is not easy for natural man. Its standard is high and cannot be achieved apart from God's supernatural grace. God's law teaches us our need of grace. When you fail to hold out God's standard, you rob your children of the mercy of the gospel.”
― Tedd Tripp

“Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.”
― Tedd Tripp

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

“The research we do at the local level - collaboratively - is what makes formal, outside research work. Outside research cannot be installed like a car part - it has to be fitted, adjusted, and refined for the school contexts we workd in.”
― Mike Schmoker

“In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.”
― Mike Schmoker

“We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.”
― Cynthia Rylant, Missing May

“Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.”
― Mike Schmoker, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement