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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 06c4b5e | Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in heaven will fill you with joy. | John Piper | ||
| 9eae4e2 | The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has already ruled in our favor. 'If God is for us, who can be against us?' (Romans 8:31) No one successfully If they reject us, he accepts us. If they hate us, he loves us. If they imprison us, he sets our spirits free. If they afflict us, he refines us by the fire. If they kill us, he makes it a passage to paradise. They canno.. | religion | John Piper | |
| b83e8d5 | Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of the will for Christ. No supernatural power is required to pray prayers, sign cards, walk aisles, or even stop sleeping around. Those are good. They just don't prove that anything spiritual has happened. Christian conversion, on the other hand, is a supernatural, radical thing. The hea.. | conversion emotions salvation | John Piper | |
| f731467 | The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace. | wisdom | John Piper | |
| ba0f0b6 | When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus. | John Piper | ||
| bd80beb | Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. | giving mission missionary money wealth | John Piper | |
| 0e87dde | God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do. | gold grace lifestyle stewardship | John Piper | |
| 8936b21 | At various points in our lives, or on a quest, for reasons that often remain obscure , we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. | Dai Sijie | ||
| e7d9917 | La beaute d'une femme est un tresor qui n'a pas de prix. | Sijie Dai | ||
| e745854 | Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198) | self | Dai Sijie | |
| c5832db | As time went by, I realized that the particular place I'd chose was less important than the fact that I'd chosen a place and focused my life around it. Although the island has taken on great significance for me, it's no more inherently beautiful or meaningful than any other place on earth. What makes a place special is the way it buries itself inside the heart, not whether it's flat or rugged, rich or austere. wet or arid, gentle or harsh, .. | Richard Nelson | ||
| a8c948e | Herder put forward the idea that each of us has an original way of being human. Each person has his or her own "measure" is his way of putting it. This idea has entered very deep into modern consciousness. It is also new. Before the late eighteenth century no one thought that the differences between human beings had this kind of moral significance." | Charles Taylor | ||
| 7020f5f | I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'affirmation of ordinary life.' It is the simple idea that ordinary people are fallible, and yet these fallible people matter. In this view, society should organize itself in order to meet their everyday concerns, which are elevated into a kind of spiritual framework. The nuclear family, the .. | human-rights | Dinesh D'Souza | |
| af60ed4 | Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland" | Charles River Editors | ||
| 478de4d | Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better. | pr writing-advice | Guy Kawasaki | |
| d1cfd29 | While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people. | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| 5b540bf | Sarcasm is a weapon of the intellectual, | Ed McBain | ||
| 3980046 | I may be furious and sad about what happened with us, but that doesn't make me believe that what we had wasn't real. And it doesn't make me believe that I won't find something that real again. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 4a67ff1 | Don't never depend on somebody else to take care of you, sugar. Trust in the Lord, and then you just take care of yourself, and things will work out fine. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| a9dbb1c | Footsteps from the stairwell startle him out of the past. He turns around as Emma's mother takes the last step into the dining area, Emma right behind her. Mrs. McIntosh glides over and puts her arm around him. The smile on her face is genuine, but Emma's smile is more like a straight line. And she's blushing. "Galen, it's very nice to meet you," she says, ushering him into the kitchen. "Emma tells me you're taking her to the beach behind y.. | Anna Banks | ||
| da170f4 | Out of death, life; an immutable truth | Pat Frank | ||
| 678c29c | The vampire had to be pretty hard up to come after someone who looked the way she did-like Frankenstein's bride. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 7695dd5 | We can shape-shift whenever we like." She made a face. "You mean all those hideous stories are true? Rats and bats and slimy worm things?" "Now, why would I want to be a slimy worm thing?" He was openly laughing. The sound startled him; he couldn't remember laughing aloud." | Christine Feehan | ||
| af802d3 | Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn't above using my gift for revenge. None of you did that." Joley slowly raised her hand, sliding down in the chair as she did so. Hannah followed suit, though she didn't look in the least remorseful. Sarah shrugged her shoul.. | humor revenge | Christine Feehan | |
| ced3312 | If you think I'll let you go into that hornet's nest you've got another think coming. He's my son. I'll be the one going to get him. | Christine Feehan | ||
| bc1442c | Of course I will be dictating to you, Savannah. But please do not worry. I can assure you, I am quite good at it. | Christine Feehan | ||
| ae958b8 | I'm not a violent man." Joshua, Jerico and Evan choked dramatically and began coughing. Remy snorted. "And if you believe that, Saria, I've got a sinkhole I can sell you for farmland." "You're not helping my cause," Drake complained. "Ignore them. I always do," Saria advised." | Christine Feehan | ||
| a172b21 | I am not certain I liked you referring to my brother as a monster." There was a trace of humor in Mikhail's voice. "You should hear what I call you behind your back," Gregori said, even as his arms spread to accommodate the wings forming." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 247bb06 | Julian bent closer as if to soothe her. "Please continue. This is extremely interesting. I searched centuries for lost Carpathians but had given up hope. How all of you accomplished what you did is extraordinary." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 45ab081 | He sounds interesting," Savannah murmured. Instantly Gregori could feel his muscles tighten. That black, nameless rage that made him so dangerous boiled in his gut. He would always live with the fear that he had stolen Savannah from another. That some other Carpathian male held the secret to her heart. That he had condemned another to death or,worse, to becoming the undead,because he had stolen Savannah. Since Gregori had manipulated the ou.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 4c50e56 | I'm used to doing things my way, and Aidan is set in his medieval ways." "What's medieval?" Joshua wanted to know. "Ask Aidan. He's good with answers," she replied resentfully. "Medieval refers to the days of knight and ladies, Joshua. Alexandria thinks I would have made a great knight. They were men who served their homeland with honor and always recued and took care of their fair maidens." Aidan drained the contents of a third glass of ru.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| d683907 | The woman was a menace. He would hate it if she were his. Only a man very strong and able to do without any malefriends could have a siren like her. She was more than a handful; she was a disaster waiting to happen. ma petite femme? Gregori's satisfied voice whispered in her mind. With great reluctance he loosened his hold on her. Her eyes widened in mock surprise. cherie, She laughed out loud, totally unafraid as she sashayed through.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| f2e8b93 | I can't believe he sent me flowers." A rude noise escaped from somewhere deep in Aidan's throat. "I just saved your life. What are roses compared to that?" He was glaring at the long-stemmed flowers, his golden gaze intent and menacing. Alexandria glanced up at him, saw the dark, determined set of his mouth, and burst out laughing. She spun around and went up on her toes to cover his eyes with her palm. "Don't you dare. If my roses wither, .. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 44fac48 | Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will. | Christine Feehan | ||
| b2d2e7a | One of us needs to know how to talk. I'm good with a gun, I think you should take up talking. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 573a68c | You're strong. Give him time to show you. I promise you Anya, you won't ever regret it | Christine Feehan | ||
| 755fee7 | You may be ready to give up on us, but I am not quite there yet. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 80e7048 | She nearly dropped her brush. Just the low velvet touch of his voice sent heat curling through her body. It was sinful and unfair to have such a voice. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 4b9bca4 | He wanted to wake up every morning to her. Go to sleep with his body wrapped tightly around hers. He wanted her to have his child--his children. He knew he wanted to live out the rest of his life with her by his side and when he died, he wanted to die in her arms. | love | Christine Feehan | |
| 40b65fb | I'm sorry. I never think to check my messages and I don't have a clue where that cell phone is.' She looked around as if she might find it in the flower bed. | Christine Feehan | ||
| b217dde | It was dangerous to go back, at least for him, to even think of those days when he was too young and had no way to save the dying. He could only whisper to them, tell them not to be afraid, and that someday, he would avenge them. | romance torpedo-ink | Christine Feehan | |
| a8fc72d | How do people know for certain when they find their lifemate?" Julian's smile was like a physical touch, a soft caress. "I have lived centuries without seeing color or feeling emotion.And then I found you. The world is now beautiful again and filled with life, with color, with so much intense emotion I can barely process it. When I look at you my body is alive. My heart is overwhelmed. You are the one." "What happens if the woman does not f.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| a544a7c | Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are. | inspirational life zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| 0316cee | There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today. | labor | Nevil Shute |