Lisa Samson Quotes

There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

~ Lisa Samson

Jesus, do you always show up like this, at the craziest of times and in the oddest of places? I sure hope so.

~ Lisa Samson

I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?

~ Lisa Samson

But the true miracle of the resurrection wasn't so much the raising. Is something like that too hard for the God who made the universe? The true miracle is in the forgiving. And though we are bruised and burned, blind and broken, we are forgiven.

~ Lisa Samson

Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would go away as well. Guys, we just don't want to see your underwear. Truthfully, we believe that there is a direct correlation between how much underwear you show and how much you've got upstairs, if you know what I mean.

~ Lisa Samson

I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.

~ Lisa Samson

Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.

~ Lisa Samson

Personally, I like to imagine the Godhead dancing it a rhythm of its own, something even grander than a waltz, touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, and hearing, creating wonder after wonder, and when it's finished, looking upon the handiwork and saying, This is great!

~ Lisa Samson

You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.

~ Lisa Samson

If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.

~ Lisa Samson