Jayber Crow Quotes.

1. "Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

2. "I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

3. "You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.' And how long is that going to take?' I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.' That could be a long time.' I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

4. "As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

5. "Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

6. "I have always loved a window, especially an open one."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

7. "I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

8. "We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

9. "Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

10. "But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow