Norman Mailer Quotes

God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

Being A Christian doesn't mean I won't fall... It means Jesus will catch me, when I do.

Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Jesus heals your PAST, is your very PRESENT help and takes care of your FUTURE.

Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

God may have mercy, but we won't.

I doubted my creative spirit three years ago and God showed me a way to praise Him through song. It opened the door to a whole tapestry of images and concepts that were brand new for me and I continued on that path.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.