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| 887e8b4 | Our surface relationships are leaving us increasingly lonely...We ache for deeper connections as we're blinded by the spotlight of public superficial relationships. We leave someone sitting before us, waiting while we "finish one more thing" on our phone screen. But that's just it; we never seem to finish. A heart without a face looks like any other heart. It's the face to face that tells us if a heart-to-heart is real." | relationships | Beth Moore | |
| 661a261 | We can always hope and pray diligently for a miracle. If, in God's sovereignty, He chooses to accomplish His purposes another way, let it not be that we have not because we asked not (James 4:2) or that we have not because we believed not (Matt. 9:29). | Beth Moore | ||
| 67031d6 | How encouraging to remember that the Spirit of God is more powerful than the spirit of wickedness! As 1 John 4:4 reminds us, "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." | Beth Moore | ||
| 3cd70d2 | Man can refuse to cooperate, but he cannot keep God from executing the critical events on His schedule. | Beth Moore | ||
| d2fb7be | I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. Isaiah 41:9-10 | Beth Moore | ||
| 0e49fe0 | To be free in Christ, our high places will have to fall. We must be willing to take a stand against idolatry. | Beth Moore | ||
| 94b614f | If we would turn the time we spent discussing the other's life into prayer time instead, no telling what would happen to the glory of God. | Beth Moore | ||
| 92e6fd4 | We have a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us. For a while, we're humbled. Then, if we do not guard our hearts and minds, we begin to think we must have done something right for God to have been so good to us. Therein lies another road to captivity. It is the road of legalism. | Beth Moore | ||
| a53f7ff | Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. | Beth Moore | ||
| a52d657 | I've never had occasion to use one magnificent tip from a well-known author, but I pass it on anyway: "Keep an eye on the trade press. When an editor moves on, immediately send your precious MS to his or her office, with a covering letter addressed to said departed editor. Say, in the tones of one engaged in a cooperative effort, something like this: 'Dear X, I was very pleased to receive your encouraging letter indicating your interest in .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f41f4ed | I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn't believe me. | C.E. Murphy | ||
| 2d758ce | it took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog could look distracted, I didn't know, but there you had it. "I'm not," he said for the umpteenth time, "a dog." | C.E. Murphy | ||
| bbda293 | She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn't know, but the idea completely grossed me out. "In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries." I wasn't just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn't fair." | C.E. Murphy | ||
| 1656468 | Since I didn't have any world-class fencing skills, I kicked Cernunnos in the nuts again. I didn't have to know how to use a sword to do that, and he was standing there like he was asking for it, so it seemed justified. Shock and rage filled his green eyes all over again and he doubled. I guess there must be rules that people fighting gods usually followed. Next time, maybe someone would give me a primer. | C.E. Murphy | ||
| f3f0ace | I'm a lawyer. I meet people every day who are on the surface considerably worse than you are. You, Janx, Alban, you're really all so...normal. You can do stuff I can't, but so can Michael Jordan." Dismay hit her palpably enough to make her want to step back, though she held her ground even as she groaned. "Please don't tell me he's one of you." Daisani's shoulders rose and fell, a single admission of silent laughter. "I believe Mr. Jordan.. | C.E. Murphy | ||
| eef50a9 | Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. "If you'd asked me three months ago I'd have said you were hitting the bottle too hard. But then I got stabbed and should have died, but instead a bunch of cops and ambulance people showed up because somebody who wasn't even there sent them on ahead to save my life. If something like that happens to someone like me, you start to have a little faith in something bigger. I don't know if.. | C.E. Murphy | ||
| 3ca302c | The number of elected officials who were willing to put the good of the country ahead of their own ego, and the success of their political party, was minuscule. | Vince Flynn | ||
| dea6022 | What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures? | Umberto Eco | ||
| e37f826 | Biblioteki -- to neimovirna shtuka: chasom zdaiet'sia, nibi stoyish na vokzal'nii platformi i, chitaiuchi z knizhkovikh storinok pro ekzotichni mistsia, podorozhuiesh dalekimi krayinami. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 69e2f3e | The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things -- an intended pear does not nourish us. And .. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 45d0079 | Poor boy," the libertine then said, "he builds machines to count the infinite, and we have terrified him with the eternal silence of too many infinities. Voila, the end of a fine vocation." | Umberto Eco | ||
| b6743b4 | W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that the characters have an autonomous life and the author, in a kind of trance, makes them behave as they themselves direct him. That kind of nonsense belongs in term papers. The fact is that the characters are obliged to act according to the laws of.. | creative-process fictional-universe writing | Umberto Eco | |
| c21d226 | the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved | ebook inventions | Umberto Eco | |
| e4a14fa | He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open. | Umberto Eco | ||
| aa30a48 | A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a | Umberto Eco | ||
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| 4595542 | l`lh shykhwkhty lHly@ hy lty tj`lny 'sh`r - w'n athm fy dhlk - b'n kl m `shth fy shbby kn jmylan wSlHan . | Umberto Eco | ||
| 5f4de57 | When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 166da84 | The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square. | Umberto Eco | ||
| f550beb | living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss. | Umberto Eco | ||
| e33db71 | I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story. | Umberto Eco | ||
| feca16f | What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves? | human-nature irony man saints st-francis wolf | Umberto Eco | |
| 48181c9 | the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 9f3ba50 | There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of learning but can maintain this learning unsullied only if it prevents its reaching anyone at all, even the monks themselves. Learning is not like a coin, which remains whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress, which is worn out through use and ostentation. Is not a book li.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| a664d7e | I was dozing, and the clock woke me. I didn't hear the first few chimes distinctly, that is to say, I didn't count them. But as soon as I decided to count I realized that there had already been three, so I was able to count four, five, and so on. I understood that I could say four and then wait for the fifth, because one, two, and three had passed, and I somehow knew that. If the fourth chime had been the first I was conscious of, I would h.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| d9dc47b | tlk lmth@ hy Swr@ mn hdh l`lm: fsyH@ lmn yryd ldkhwl , Dyq@ lmn yrGb fy lkhrwj | Umberto Eco | ||
| bbd169c | But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. | pages sin virtue | Umberto Eco | |
| e5be19e | The library is testimony to truth and to error, | Umberto Eco | ||
| 6e2e67d | Tat ca moi thu, ke ca co ve tam phao, mot ngay nao do cung co the tro nen huu ich. Dieu quan trong la biet duoc dieu ma nguoi khac khong biet la ban biet. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 041d68a | It's true, I'd never understood whether this vogue for apologising is a sign of humility or of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it. It reminds me of the old joke about a cowboy riding across the prairie who hears a voice from heaven telling him to go to Abilene, then at Abilene the voice tells him to go into the saloon and put all his money on number five. Tempted by the voice, h.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 73e93f6 | Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a bunch of practical jokers who meet somewhere and decide to have a contest. They invent a character, agree on a few basic facts, and then each one's free to take it and run with it. At the end, they'll see who's done the best job. The four stories are picked up by some friends who act as critics: Matthew is fairly realistic, but insists on that Messiah business too much: Mark isn't bad, just a little slopp.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| a61877c | And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!" "The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly." | british-humour humor the-british-are-mad | Umberto Eco | |
| 0629d80 | You poke at evil with a stick," Valerie had said, offering chilling advice they'd never forget. "Never use your fingers." | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 519c69c | I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing. ~ Michelle Jarvis | Gregg Olsen |