Quotes on Doors

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena for a god without ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is genderless, but I also understand that for her to approach me, for me to finally open the door and accept her, she had to be a woman like me.

People can open doors for you, but you ... must walk through.

Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.