“God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.” DoeCharacterTurnsChoicesMoralHolySeriesInnocenceMoral Choices Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.” TurnsHotSmellInnocenceExposedMilkVirginsThunderTartsHot Days Author:Honore de Balzac
“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.” IfsWayWritingMeanSelfTurnsEnergySourceSorrowJudgmentEmpathyGuiltDisappointmentWitPityInnocenceIronyEmpoweringOriginalityAggressionWoundedMisunderstoodDeliberateSelf PityOthernessSillinessOddnessPerverseness Author:Ted Solotaroff
“We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our fondest memories soon turn to poison And only oblivion remains in season.” WorldLifeYearsTurnsMemoriesExperienceSeasonsRemainsAgingInnocencePoisonPrisonerLife ExperienceOblivionEnchantmentDemented Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems