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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5aa7339 | A question asked in earnest deserves an earnest answer. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 49c9564 | He's not dumb, Biff, he just has a talent for belief. | Christopher Moore | ||
| d2feb0b | Compassion is the same way,' Joshua said. 'That's what the yeti knew. He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without though or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift. | Christopher Moore | ||
| c1273d5 | bet he was myrrh," said Josh. "Bastard, he brings the cheapest gift and now he wants to sodomize me. My mother told me the myrrh went bad after a week too." Did I mention that Joshua was not a myrrh fan?" | Christopher Moore | ||
| 5d3814c | Ten salespeople, all young, all dressed in generic cotton casual, looked up from their conversations, spotted the money in her hand, and simultaneously stopped breathing-their brains shutting down bodily functions and rerouting the needed energy to calculate the projected commissions contained in Jody's cash. One by one they resumed breathing and marched toward her, a look of dazed hunger in their eyes: a pack of zombies from the perky, you.. | Christopher Moore | ||
| c3a4f9a | All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for what it is: just behavior. | Arthur Phillips | ||
| 79528fd | It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die. | Mike Lupica | ||
| 0f154d2 | We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important. | death materialism ownership possessions | Donna Leon | |
| 315a77e | How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity. | Donna Leon | ||
| 0417a50 | Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it! | Lynda Barry | ||
| 341d353 | Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them. | Lynda Barry | ||
| ecb822f | I saw a post online where someone said, "An abuser doesn't abuse every day." That, my friend, is intermittent reinforcement in a nutshell." | Shannon Thomas | ||
| 45d971f | I realized that I had been called to proclaim the Gospel from the place where I am and proclaim where I am from the Gospel. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 380d7a4 | God did not enter the world of our nostalgic, silent-night, snow-blanketed, peace-on-earth, suspended reality of Christmas. God slipped into the vulnerability of skin and entered our violent and disturbing world. | reality | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 0af71c9 | What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is. | recovery | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 9b1ca6f | Without higher-quality material to work with, God resorts to working through us for others and upon us through others. Those are some weirdly restorative, disconcerting shenanigans to be caught up in: God forcing God's people to see themselves as God sees them, to do stuff they know they are incapable of doing, so that God might make use of them, and make them to be both humble recipients and generous givers of grace, so that they may be pa.. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| c0cc1cc | Sometimes help comes from unexpected places. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 6a11053 | I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 9d7f09e | It was in those first couple months that I fell in love with liturgy, the ancient pattern of worship shared mainly in the Catholic, Lutheran, Orthodox, and Episcopal churches. It felt like a gift that had been caretaken by generations of the faithful and handed to us to live out and caretake and hand off. Like a stream that has flowed long before us and will continue long after us. A stream that we get to swim in, so that we, like those who.. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| f4d4e9a | My former bishop Allan Bjorberg once said that the greatest spiritual practice isn't yoga or praying the hours or living in intentional poverty, although these are all beautiful in their own way. The greatest spiritual practice is just showing up. And Mary Magdalene is the patron saint of just showing up. Showing up, to me, means being present to what is real, what is actually happening. Mary Magdalene didn't necessarily know what to say or.. | christianity faith jesus mary-magdalene | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 4feb2b4 | Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these kinds of tragic events. Those platitudes are tempting, but they're nothing but luxuries for people who've never had demons (or at least have never admitted to them). But equally, she would reject nihilism, or the idea that there is no real meaning in life or death - ideas present in so much of postmodern.. | christianity demons faith grieving jesus loss mary-magdalene platitudes | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 245603e | My Christian faith tells me that good news is only good if it is for everyone, otherwise it's just ideology. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| c355f9a | A Christian should carry the weapon of all prayer like a drawn sword in his hand. We should never sheathe our supplications. Never may our hearts be like an unlimbered gun, with everything to be done to it before it can thunder on the foe, but it should be like a piece of cannon, loaded and primed, only requiring the fire that it may be discharged. The soul should be not always in the exercise of prayer, but always in the energy of prayer; .. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 297fe1e | Imagine spending an entire workday with your best friend at your side. You would no doubt acknowledge his presence throughout the day by introducing him to your friends or business associates and talking to him about the various activities of the day. But how would your friend feel if you never talked to him or acknowledged his presence? Yet that's how we treat the Lord when we fail to pray. If we communicated with our friends as infrequent.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| eb85c8a | It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man's true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life.... | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 720ff43 | William Spiver said that the universe was expanding...that means there will be more of everything! More cheese puffs, more jelly sandwiches, more words, more poems, more love. And more giant donuts...maybe even gianter donuts. Is gianter a word? It should be. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 89cb311 | While you are waiting to die, you have to live. | live the-storms-of-war | Kate Williams | |
| 782ff26 | ntZrtk s`tyn s'ntZrk sntyn hl ntZr b`d! | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| abbec72 | I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing; it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 2d7f61c | Toda a compreensao e imperfeita porque, quanto mais se expande, em maiores fronteiras confina com o incompreensivel que a cerca. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 32c4d15 | Queen, goodbye forever! Your wings were sunbeams, and my feet are clay I'll never be well if I don't get to bed I never was well unless I was stretched out across the universe. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 1e8a860 | All of life's unpleasant experiences - when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue - should be regarded as mere external accidents which can't affect the substance of our soul. We should see them as toothaches or calluses of life, as things that bother us but remain outside us (even though they're ours), or that only our organic existence need consider and our vital functions worry about. Wh.. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 01472a4 | If our life were an eternal standing by the window, if we could remain there forever, like hovering smoke, with the same moment of twilight forever painting the curve of the hills... If we could remain that way for beyond for ever! If at least on this side of the impossible we could thus continue, without committing an action, without our pallid lips sinning another word! Look how it's getting dark!... The positive quietude of everything fi.. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 867b031 | lqd `tdt 'n 'Hlm kthyr.. lqd t`btu mn lHlm..lknny lm 't`b..l 'Hd yt`b mn lHlm ..ln 'n tHlm ..hw 'n tns~..w lnsyn l yklWifn shyy' ..nh lnwm lkhly mn l'Hlm dhlk ldhy yHdth wnHn mstyqZwn ..lkn fy 'Hlmy.. lqd Hqqt kl shy'! | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| cd07523 | I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| c3920bb | 12. Se escrevo o que sinto e porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir. O que confesso nao tem importancia, pois nada tem importancia Por: Bernado Soares In: Livro do Desassossego | writer | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 7ffd531 | For those few like me who live without knowing how to have life, what's left but renunciation as our way and contemplation as our destiny? Not knowing nor able to know what religious life is, since faith isn't acquired through reason, and unable to have faith in or even react to the abstract notion of man, we're left with the aesthetic contemplation of life as our reason for having a soul. Impassive to the solemnity of any and all worlds, i.. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 16b5cbe | To live is to not think. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| d786e81 | So esta liberdade nos concedem Os deuses: submetermo-nos Ao seu dominio por vontade nossa. Mais vale assim fazermos Porque so na ilusao da liberdade A liberdade existe. | liberdade poesía | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 61ab6f9 | Let others take up my madness And all that went with it. Without madness what is man But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds? | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| c824b71 | Temos, todos que vivemos, Uma vida que e vivida E outra vida que e pensada, E a unica vida que temos | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 14799aa | At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play out their silent show to my inattention. | fractals half-sleep | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 3e1e7da | O homem nao difere do animal senao em saber que o nao e. E a primeira luz, que nao e mais que treva visivel. E o comeco, porque ver a treva e ter a luz dela. E o fim, porque e o saber, pela vista, que se nasceu cego. Assim o animal se torna homem pela ignorancia que nele nasce | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 9b1e819 | Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the sun is enough to make me suffer, how then should I not suffer in the darkness of the endlessly overcast sky of my own life? | darkness depression suffering torture | Fernando Pessoa |