Margaret Lee Runbeck - Man Quotes

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All prayers, whatever form they assume, are of profit to the man who utters them; of that I have become convinced. What might seem like only a weak outcry to one man may serve as the fulcrum of courage to another.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

I suppose it is the inexhaustible nature of us that we feel alive only while we search. Man must go on sparring with himself in excruciating unbalance, alive only when he is scintillating like an agitated needle on some huge instrument, tremulous between the agony of desiring and the lethargy of satiety.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

A man does not steal from one victim only, but from everyone who comes near to the theft.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

You can't cheat a praying man. If he comes to hear a sermon, he hears a sermon.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

You can't defeat a praying man. He finds his answers everywhere he looks.

Margaret Lee Runbeck