Quote

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Margaret Deland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
Author
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Truth
Readiness
Certain
Dogma
Seems
Openness
May
Holding
Heart
Simply
Believe
Show
Faith
Shows
Dogmas

More quotes by Margaret Deland

Image
moral vanity is the snare of good people.
Margaret Deland
Image
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
Margaret Deland
Image
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Margaret Deland
Image
Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
Margaret Deland
Image
A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Margaret Deland
Image
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
Margaret Deland
Image
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
Margaret Deland
Image
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
Margaret Deland
Image
I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
Margaret Deland
Image
the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
Margaret Deland
Image
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
Margaret Deland
Image
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
Margaret Deland
Image
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
Margaret Deland
Image
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
Margaret Deland
Image
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
Margaret Deland
Image
Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
Margaret Deland
Image
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
Margaret Deland
Image
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
Margaret Deland
Image
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
Margaret Deland
Image
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.
Margaret Deland