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| c38e6ce | Daniel was very like a child in all the parts of his character. He was strongly affected by whatever was present, and apt to forget the absent. He acted on impulse, and too often had reason to be sorry for it; but he hated his sorrow too much to let it teach him wisdom for the future. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f8d493f | But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working. | problem-for-women victorian-era women-question | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| e6eee60 | My father once made us," she began, "keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in the morning what we thought would be the course and events of the coming day, and at night we were to put down on the other side what really had happened. It would be to some people rather a sad way of telling their lives," (a tear dropped upon my hand at these words) - "I don't mean that mine has been sad, only so very different to what I .. | life musings sadness | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 0d5f83a | Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty. | duty ends interest purpose reasoning sardonic self-deception | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 9154717 | Let us go on and see little Susan, said Margaret, drawing her companion up a grassy road-way, leading under the shadow of a forest glade. "With all my heart, though I have not an idea who little Susan may be. But I have a kindness for all Susans, for simple Susan's sake." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 49d73f9 | If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat." | jem loss love marriage | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| f0357af | Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table. | food | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 7ef1dfa | If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she might not have become. But Dixon was too loyal to desert her in her affliction and downfall (alias her married life). | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 90f39df | In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| ea7b520 | Whatever we say about God always rests within the larger reality of what we can't say; meaning always resides within a larger mystery; knowing always takes place within unknowing; whatever has been revealed to us surrounded by that which hasn't been revealed to us. | Rob Bell | ||
| 3a3fedb | What? It's ridiculous. Control your emotions. Can you imagine if criminals went around saying they fell into hatred or jealousy and that's why they killed four people or robbed the bank? We act like love is this uncontrollable thing. But when it comes to anger and all of that ugly stuff, we're expected to control it. We're supposed to handle those emotions without hurting anyone. But throw out the word 'love' and everyone thinks all of the .. | Audrey Bell | ||
| f4951f8 | Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement of God that is continuing forward in the culture around them . . . without their participation. | Rob Bell | ||
| 90914e0 | In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God--the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-- ripped. One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God. A beautiful idea. But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously. | Rob Bell | ||
| b694f63 | What we see in these passages is God meeting people, tribes, and cultures right where they are and drawing and inviting and calling them forward, into greater and greater shalom and respect and rights and peace and dignity and equality. It's as if human history were progressing along a trajectory, an arc, a continuum; and sacred history is the capturing and recording of those moments when people became aware that they were being called and .. | Rob Bell | ||
| 00da4ce | Jesus is supracultural. He is present within all cultures, and yet outside of all cultures. He is for all people, and yet he refuses to be co-opted or owned by any one culture. That includes any Christian culture. Any denomination. Any church. Any theological system. We can point to him, name him, follow him, discuss him, honor him, and believe in him--but we cannot claim him to be ours any more than he's anyone else's. | Rob Bell | ||
| ec059fd | It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting. | Rob Bell | ||
| 543aa61 | There is a difference between details and clutter. Clutter is the books on your shelf that you're never going to read, the stacked-up papers that have been untouched for months, the endless flotsam and jetsam in your car, your closet, your garage, your kitchen, your bedroom, and your office. Clutter is all those clothes that you haven't worn in years filling all those shelves and drawers. Clutter is all those possessions you've got piled in.. | Rob Bell | ||
| e8af040 | When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an endless giving circle of joy and creativity. | Rob Bell | ||
| 946800a | Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common. | Rob Bell | ||
| f13436d | Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step. But you don't have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1. Start with 1. | Rob Bell | ||
| 630f3f1 | The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable. | humility | Brian D. McLaren | |
| 64e60a1 | What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile--more responsive to the Holy Spirit--when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, s.. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| f27807a | The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: "A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation." | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 5a1207f | And so to read is, in truth, to be in the constant act of creation. The old lady on the bus with her Orwell, the businessman on the Tube with Patricia Cornwell, the teenager roaring through Capote -- they are not engaged in idle pleasure. Their heads are on fire. Their hearts are flooding. With a book, you are the landscape, the sets, the snow, the hero, the kiss -- you are the mathematical calculation the plots the trajectory of the blazin.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0bf8648 | Caz doesn't like 'nearness'. It makes her extremely irascible. In a three-bedroom council house with seven people in it, she is almost perpetually furious. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 3297c06 | When the middle classes get passionate about politics, they're arguing about their treats--their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they're fighting for their lives. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 59171a3 | I speculate, briefly, on how different the world would be if it were run by women. In that world, if you were a lonely, horny woman - as I am. As I always am- you'd see Blu-tacked postcards by Soho doorways that read 'Nice man in cardigan, 24, will talk to you about The Smiths whilst making you cheese-on-toast+come to parties with you. Apply within'. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 1ee81bc | Jesus, I'm sorry. I have wasted your time with a fake deal. I acknowledge that this means you are of the case, and that I am now totally on my own in saving the family from destruction. I shall go back to not believing in you again. We will revert to our former positions. Sorry about all that. Take care. Lots of love to God. Amen. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| b852bc0 | Please wait for me. Don't have all the fun now. Don't fill up on other people who aren't me. Don't ruin your appetite. | love missing-someone | Caitlin Moran | |
| 1187907 | All my life, I've thought that if I couldn't say anything boys found interesting, I might as well shut up. But now I realize there was that whole other, invisible half of the world--girls--that I could speak to instead. A whole other half equally silent and frustrated, just waiting to be given the smallest starting signal--the tiniest starter culture--and they would explode into words, and song, and action, and relieved, euphoric cries of ".. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 676c36d | And when you are being kissed like this, you are Christmas Day; you are the moon shot; you are field larks. My shoes were suddenly worth a million pounds, and my breath was the ethyl in champagne. When someone kisses you like this, you are the point of everything. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| cd1b58b | He remembered the night in Arlington when the news came: secession. He remembered a paneled wall and firelight. When we heard the news we went into mourning. But outside there was cheering in the streets, bonfires of joy. They had their war at last. But where was there ever any choice? The sight of fire against wood paneling, a bonfire seen far off at night through a window, soft and sparky glows always to remind him of that embedded night .. | the-killer-angels | Michael Shaara | |
| cb1f568 | Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 94bd31e | Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. | Tim Cahill | ||
| df57d52 | Who knows what we all are before anything happens? | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 61c077e | coffee's the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 32a7bbf | No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| b899cc7 | Although I was always a keen library user, buying books was a different order of bliss, because I would get to live with these ones. (A Chat with Emma Donoghue) | Jen Campbell | ||
| ccdf278 | I thought humans were or weren't, I didn't know someone could be a bit human. Then what are his other bits? | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 604e547 | I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour. | life regret | Emma Donoghue | |
| f31612a | Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 55405e5 | We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 026a5b2 | When I come to the end of my life -- when I come to the real end, at the right time, my mind may flash with random images... But I am not being hopeful about this when I say my last thoughts will be of love. | life love | Emma Forrest | |
| 5e6fdf0 | The sadness -- the general sadness that squats and pees inside my brain -- isn't over. It never will be. I know how best to chase it away, though. It usually works. Sometimes it doesn't. But I pray and say, fuck it, then. I choose this. It chooses me. I choose it back. | Emma Forrest |