Quotes from Robert Morgan

We often rush when we should plod, forgetting that we usually accomplish more by persisting than by hurrying.

Bears were so abundant that Boone killed 155 in one season, and he killed one monster bear that weighed between five hundred and six hundred pounds.

we always spoke our minds we wouldn't have no friends at all, and no love, and the human race would die out.

Complex and original people know that truth is rarely simple, almost never all of this or all of that, but elusive minglings and mixtures, evolving shapes, with tinctures of irony and paradox.

Self-forgiveness comes when we realize that if God has forgiven us, we needn't remain angry with ourselves, needn't hate ourselves any longer. God will use it all for good.

The preacher John R. Rice said, "Worry is putting question marks where God has put periods." Bishop

The Heavenly City outshines Rome," Augustine wrote. "There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of life, eternity.

Let me say I am here, (1) By God's appointment, (2) In His keeping, (3) Under His training

There must be full surrender before there can be full blessedness. God admits you by the one into the other.

Every time we resist the slightest temptation, we honor God. Every

Lord," he said, "for what we are about to receive make us truly thankful, and for the struggles of this life make us strong and worthy, and for the beauties of the world make us humble and grateful.

A. W. Tozer said, "To the child of God, there is no such thing as an accident. He travels an appointed way. . . . Accidents may indeed appear to befall him and misfortune stalk his way; but these evils will be so in appearance only and will seem evils only because we cannot read the secret script of God's hidden providence."4 This

There's no hope for a family that quarrels all the time.

According to UNICEF, if ninety school buses filled with preschoolers crashed every day with no survivors, the world would notice. Yet that's how many young children perish daily from impure water and inadequate sanitation.3 One

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."4 You can trust Him with the days ahead, for He has promised to guide you. Seventh

If I knowed I was a fool I might learn to be better and do better

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.