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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9e13118 | Because of Jesus, we can view life as a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| dd781c8 | Believe me, once you have tasted worship--the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord--nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again. | life religion | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| 5996512 | If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time. | gods-will | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| e6e66b8 | Moses] dedicated himself to the will of God, but not to the God whose will it was. | god gods-will moses | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| 3e5faf7 | The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9 | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 5c66c71 | singing has to come from the inside, and i don't have anything left inside.' 'really?' Ruth said, amazed, 'How did that happen?' 'it all just drained out. | emptiness singing | Francine Rivers | |
| 9b0354a | To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard ; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony. William Henry Channin.. | Jan Karon | ||
| a4ab285 | To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard ; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony. | Jan Karon | ||
| 356260f | God will give you courage when you need it. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 87789cd | Stand firm in the Lord, Hadassah. Stand firm and let him fight your battles. Do not try to fight alone. | Francine Rivers | ||
| f038d64 | You're going to marry me, and I'm going to take you out of here. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 0e53962 | Michael sat down behind her. He put his strong legs on either side of her and pulled her back against him. "Just wait." She wanted to resist his embrace, but she was too cold to fight him. "For what?" He put his arms around her. "For morning." "I could have waited for that in the cabin." He laughed against her hair. Lifting it, he kissed the nape of her neck. "You can't understand until you see it from here." He nuzzled the soft skin beneat.. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 0e0fc66 | When I made you say my name, you couldn't pretend nothing was happening between us, could you? Was that it? I wanted to get inside you, inside your heart," he said huskily. "Did I?" "A little." "Good." He traced her face with one finger again. "A woman is either a wall or a door, beloved." She gave a bleak laugh and looked at him. "Then I guess I'm a door a thousand men have walked through." "No. You are a wall, a stone wall, four feet thic.. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 6224c68 | loved her, Lord. I loved her enough to die for her, and she did this to me. Maybe she's beyond redemption. How do you forgive someone who doesn't even care enough to want to be forgiven? | Francine Rivers | ||
| bd9dc8d | Have you ever been to the beach and wanted to feed the seagulls? The problem is you tear off a little crust from your sandwich and toss it to one, and ten more show up. Toss a little more and a flock descends. You start to wonder: if I run out of bread, will I become the meal? Turkeys are different. They startle easily and run for the barn. In the wild, they run for the hills. Of course, they're very tasty. Benjamin Franklin thought them ma.. | society | Francine Rivers | |
| 14b03d0 | As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee. PSALM 42 : 1 | Francine Rivers | ||
| 2a5d428 | Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 0330a94 | How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth. | grieve pain truth | Francine Rivers | |
| 6180501 | Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom. | games masks people venom | Francine Rivers | |
| 816f295 | How could a woman who had an abortion not feel guilt or some sense of remorse? How could she justify what she'd done? Whom else could she blame when everyone was telling her it's her choice? Without facing the truth and confessing it, how could she be forgiven Who could she be restored? How could she be free? | choices-and-consequences forgiveness guilt | Francine Rivers | |
| 688a9ef | Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God. | repentance | Francine Rivers | |
| 0d8fb49 | Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. JOHN F. KENNEDY | Francine Rivers | ||
| fbf4645 | Can't sleep?" Michael whispered. She shook her head. "Turn on your side." When she did, he drew her back against him, tucking her into his body. The child shifted, snuggling deeper into the quilts and pressing into Angel's stomach. "You've got a friend," Michael murmured. Angel put her arm around Ruth and closed her eyes. Michael put his arm around both of them. "Maybe we'll have one like her someday," he said against her ear." | Francine Rivers | ||
| d55f04b | It was one thing to pray for a Christmas miracle, to believe in one. It was something else entirely to see it happen before their eyes. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| f7f7246 | Like a constant assurance Bailey carried with her, God remained. All things might change. Love could come and go and friendships could fade. But God stayed. It was the truth that kept her company on the loneliest nights. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 1d046c3 | Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in life, in love, in faith, and in purity ... Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| a1a8202 | Some days are just harder than others. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| fabbfd1 | God will give you strength. He can give you the strength to walk away from anything bad, no matter how trapped you feel. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| f0b1226 | If you and someone you love have a difference of opinion on something, maybe its beset to let it stay that way. Respect each other's right to believe what you believe. Respect each other. Agree to disagree. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| d8be21d | Sometimes, life is so hard you can only do the next thing. Whatever that is, just do the next thing. God will meet you there. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 40fcf0f | Christmas miracles happen to those who believe | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 286194f | Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds | George Eliot | ||
| 69f7359 | Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-- the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-- can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. | George Eliot | ||
| 2281732 | Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities. | George Eliot | ||
| 84ca0be | It did occur to him that he could perhaps get some help by praying for it; but as the prayers he said every evening were forms learned by heart, he rather shrank from the novelty and irregularity of introducing an extempore passage on a topic of petition for which he was not aware of any precedent. | George Eliot | ||
| 44a3186 | still--it could not be fairly called wooing a woman to tell her that he would never woo her. It must be admitted to be a ghostly kind of wooing. | George Eliot | ||
| 7941a37 | A bride and bridegroom, surrounded by all the appliances of wealth, hurried through the day by the whirl of society, filling their solitary moments with hastily-snatched caresses, are prepared for their future life together as the novice is prepared for the cloister--by experiencing its utmost contrast. | George Eliot | ||
| 247162e | And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory, that it is no novelty in my life, speaking to me merely through my present sensibilities to form and colour, but the long companion of my existence that wove itself into my joys when joys were vivid. | George Eliot | ||
| 0a7f7d6 | Ah, my child, you will have real troubles to fret about by and by," is the consolation we have almost all of us had administered to us in our childhood, and have repeated to other children since we have been grown up. We have all of us sobbed so piteously, standing with tiny bare legs above our little socks, when we lost sight of our mother or nurse in some strange place; but we can no longer recall the poignancy of that moment and weep ove.. | George Eliot | ||
| e59a2d5 | That plain, middle-aged face, with a grave penetrating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a human being who had reached a firm, safe strand, but was looking with helpful pity towards the strugglers still tossed by the waves, had an effect on Maggie at this moment which was afterwards remembered by her as if it had been a promise. | George Eliot | ||
| d81b7e5 | It might seem singular that Nancy--with her religious theory pieced together out of narrow social traditions, fragments of church doctrine imperfectly understood, and girlish reasonings on her small experience--should have arrived by herself at a way of thinking so nearly akin to that of many devout people, whose beliefs are held in the shape of a system quite remote from her knowledge--singular, if we did not know that human beliefs, like .. | George Eliot | ||
| 6289cda | Before such calm external beauty the presence of a vague fear is more distinctly felt - like a raven flapping its slow wing across the sunny air. | George Eliot | ||
| ae53d26 | I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice. | writing | George Eliot | |
| 6a3da4e | There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy. | George Eliot |