Dennis Covington Quotes

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be.

Feeling after God is dangerous business.

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Endings are the most important part of stories. They grow inevitably from the stories themselves.

There are moments when you stand on the brink of a new experience and understand that you have no choice about it. Either you walk into the experience or you turn away from it, but you know that no matter what you choose, you will have altered your life in a permanent way. Either way, there will be consequences.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

I had grown up in the 1950s, with radio and television and Reader's Digest, and I had assumed that everyone around us was pretty much alike.

My uncle's death confirmed a suspicion of mine that madness and religion were a hair's breadth away.

Mystery, I’d read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend." 7-20

And Christianity without passion, danger, and mystery may not really be Christianity after all.

Let me tell you, the bite of the serpent is nothing compared to the bite of your fellow man.

Someone steered them to Myron Sugarman, a San Francisco attorney who specializes in estate and taxation issues. “Myron has got clients who are worth far more than me,” Fiddler says. “He’s seen this movie over and over again.” Sugarman led the couple to the conclusion that help would be essential. You don’t just stick this kind of money in your savings account. “I realized there was going to be a lot of work involved in managing this that I had no interest in and no aptitude for,” Fiddler says. “It’s real work.” The Fiddlers needed an entourage. Enter Dennis Covington, the founder of a boutique wealth firm called Ohana Advisors.