These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening. Yann Martel
About This Quote

Imagine you are a member of the elite and have been for years. You have been around for a long time and have been doing well. You appear to be happy and full of life. Then, one day, you hear about some widow who has been deformed by leprosy and some children who live in the streets and wish to you that you would help them.

And then, imagine that this happens over and over again. It is not that you do not want to help these people; it is more like that they keep on coming up to you and asking you to help them. But, no matter what you do or say, they keep on coming up to you asking for help.

It gets to the point where the sight of their faces makes your chest heave and your resolve begins to falter.

Source: Life Of Pi

Some Similar Quotes
  1. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Anonymous
  2. Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. - Joni Eareckson Tada
  3. No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God! - T.d. Jakes
  4. His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think, " he says, "my heart is going to explode, " and I wish, more than ever, that I... - Tahereh Mafi
  5. Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? - Jacqueline Carey
More Quotes By Yann Martel
  1. I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he...
  2. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
  3. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of...
  4. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking...
  5. You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
Related Topics