1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3260
3261
3262
3263
3264
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2516f59 | God is not going to let you see the distant scene either. So you might as well quit looking for it. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future (Psalm 119:105). We do not need to know what will happen tomorrow. We only need to know he leads us and "we will find grace to help us when we need it" (Hebrews 4:16 NLT)." | Max Lucado | ||
| 3159f44 | There are times when God sends thunder to stir us. There are times when God sends blessings to lure us. But then there are times when God sends nothing but silence as he honors us with the freedom to choose where we spend eternity. | Max Lucado | ||
| 5d4f5cf | Focus on giants--you stumble. Focus on God--your giants tumble. MAX LUCADO, CAST OF CHARACTERS | Suzanne Eller | ||
| 7db8d9f | There is no one God won't use. | Max Lucado | ||
| 3860c17 | Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God's goodness. "What I did was bad," we acknowledge, "but your grace is greater than my sin, so I confess it." If our understanding of grace is small, our confession will be small: reluctant, hesitant, hedged with excuses and qualifications, full of fear of punishment. But great grace creates an honest confession." | Max Lucado | ||
| cb22821 | The cross, the zenith of history. All of the past pointed to it, and all of the future would depend upon it. It's the great triumph of heaven: God is on the earth. And it is the great tragedy of earth: man has rejected God. | Max Lucado | ||
| deacf26 | At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. | Max Lucado | ||
| 2fb526c | If it is true that a picture paints a thousand words, then there was a Roman centurion who got a dictionary full. All he did was see Jesus suffer. He never heard him preach or saw him heal or followed him through the crowds. He never witnessed him still the wind; he only witnessed the way he died. But that was all it took to cause this weather-worn soldier to take a giant step in faith. "Surely this was a righteous man."1 That says a lot, d.. | Max Lucado | ||
| 199b3e9 | To live as God's child is to know, at this very instant, that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more. All your efforts to win his affection are unnecessary. All your fears of losing his affection are needless. You can no more make him want you than you can convince him to abandon you. The adoption is irreversible. Yo.. | Max Lucado | ||
| ec32fd9 | For the next twelve hours I will be exposed to the day's demands. It is now that I must make a choice. Because of Calvary, I'm free to choose. And so I choose. I choose love . . . No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. I choose joy . . . I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical . . . the tool of the lazy th.. | Max Lucado | ||
| c9d4172 | Have you ever noticed the way a groom looks at his bride during the wedding? I have. Perhaps it's my vantage point. As the minister of the wedding, I'm positioned next to the groom. Side by side we stand, he about to enter the marriage, I about to perform it. By the time we reach the altar, I've been with him for some time backstage as he tugged his collar and mopped his brow. His buddies reminded him that it's not too late to escape, and t.. | Max Lucado | ||
| a07f87c | No wonder Satan wants to convince us that we are weak, because once a believer finds strength in prayer, the game is over for Satan. | Thomas Nelson | ||
| df0d4c0 | Guys have four personalities: the one they use with their parents, the one they use around other adults, the one they use for talking to girls, and the one they use for hanging with their friends. Leakage between the various personality types can cause serious problems. | Pete Hautman | ||
| 1828300 | Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name. | Pete Hautman | ||
| 0df384d | Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition. | prestige salinger | J.D. Salinger | |
| 3444a3e | I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?" | J.D. Salinger | ||
| ed68704 | In this entre-nous spirit, then, old confidant before we join the others, the grounded everywhere, including, I'm sure, the middle-aged hot-rodders who insist on zooming us to the moon, the Dharma Bums, the makers of cigarette filters for thinking men, the Beat and the Sloppy and the Petulant, the chosen cultists, all the lofty experts who know so well what we should or shouldn't do with our poor little sex organs, all the bearded, proud, u.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d13f43c | You remember I said before that Ackley was a slob in his personal habits? Well, so was Stradlater, but in a different way. Stradlater was more of a secret slob. He always looked all right, Stradlater, but for instance, you should've seen the razor he shaved himself with. It was always rusty as hell and full of lather and hairs and crap. He never cleaned it or anything. He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but he was.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 6b0a503 | You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 730bdd8 | I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| af38597 | When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. | worry | J.D. Salinger | |
| 669fb13 | If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm. | violence war | J.D. Salinger | |
| 3d6e29a | She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived, for life, of any understanding or taste for the main current of poetry that flows through things, all things. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 223eccf | Ti vse neshcho ne kharesvash. Tezi dumi oshche poveche me nat'zhikha. -- Kharesvam, kharesvam niakoi neshcha. Razbira se, che kharesvam. Ne govori taka. Diavol da go vzeme, zashcho govorish taka? -- Zashchoto ne kharesvash. Nikoe uchilishche ne ti kharesva. Milion neshcha ne kharesvash. Milion neshcha. -- Ima neshcha, koito kharesvam. Ti greshish -- tochno tuk greshish. Za kak'v diavol triabvashe da kazvash tova? -- popitakh az. Bratche, ko.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 0968f93 | I find it magnificent how beau-tiful, loose ends find each other in the world if one only waits with de-cent patience, resilience, and quite blind strength. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| efd1dc8 | Last month, Dean Sheeter (whose name usually transports Franny when I mention it) approached me with his gracious smile and bull whip, and I am now lecturing to the faculty, their wives, and a few oppressively-deep type undergraduates every Friday on Zen and Mahayana Buddhism. A feat, I haven't a doubt, that will eventually earn me the Eastern Philosophy Chair in Hell. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 860bc7b | It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I am willing to stay in the dark. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 97cb634 | That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 15a0e92 | wkhdht rqb lftyt, ....... ................................. kn mshhdan lTyfan n knt t`rf m '`nyh. wkn lmshhd mn lnHy@ l'khr~ mthyr llDyq l'nk swf ttsl: mdh swf yHdth lhn fy lmstqbl bHq ljHym. '`ny `ndm ytkhrjn mn lmdrs@ wlkly@. wtqdr 'n m`Zmhn swf ytzwjn 'wld blh, 'wld mn lnw` ldhy ytHdth `n `dd l'myl lty tqT`h syrth bjlwn lbnzyn lwHd. 'wld yfqdwn '`Sbhm kl'Tfl `ndm tntSr `lyhm fy ljwlf, 'w fy l`b@ skhyf@ mthl tns lTwl@, 'wld 'dny jd, l yqr.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 1a503d0 | I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b15366f | And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve. Everybody says that, especially my father. It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 8e5a690 | Vedn'zh se sp'nakh i padnakh - prod'lzhi tia. - Chakakh go kakto vinagi na avtobusnata spirka pred paviliona, no toi zak'snia, i kogato se zadade, avtobus't veche tr'gvashe. Spusnakhme se da go gonim, no az padnakh i si navekhnakh glezena. A toi vika: "Gorkoto meche-buboleche". Zadeto padnakh, de. Gorkoto meche-buboleche, kazva. Gospodi, kak'v mil beshe. - A Liu niama li chuvstvo za khumor? - Kakvo? - Kazvam, Liu niama li chuvstvo za khu.. | uncle-wiggily-in-connecticut way-of-life | J.D. Salinger | |
| 779060d | The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English.. | jd-salinger | J.D. Salinger | |
| 0d82e44 | How I worship her simplicity, her terrible honesty. How I rely on it. Kak bogotvoria neinata neposredstvenost, neinata neveroiatna chestnost! Kak razchitam na tazi chestnost! | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b46c24a | When they argue, there can be no danger of a permanent rift, because they're Mother and Daughter. A terrible and beautiful phenomenon to watch. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 7941e53 | A secret history of the US Government's Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a safe haven in the US for Nazis and their collaborators after WW2 and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad"." | James Morcan | ||
| 7a1ad8b | No, there wouldn't be," Holden said. "It'd be entirely different." Sally looked at him; he had contradicted her so quietly. "It wouldn't be the same at all. We'd have to go downstairs in elevators with suitcases and stuff. We'd have to call up everyone and tell 'em goodbye and send 'em postcards. And I'd have to work at my father's and ride in Madison Avenue buses and read newspapers. We'd have to go to the Seventy-second Street all the tim.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 1de3e6c | There are nice things in the world- and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 93f5811 | I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all. | the-catcher-in-the-rye | J.D. Salinger | |
| 6311275 | All I know is I'm losing my mind," Franny said. "I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting - it is, it is. I don't care what anybody says . . . I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theater .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b26fa85 | The bellboy that showed me to the room was this very old guy around sixty-five. He was even more depressing than the room was. He was one of those bald guys that comb all their hair over from the side to cover up the baldness. I'd rather be bald than do that. Anyway, what a gorgeous job for a guy around sixty-five years old. Carrying people's suitcases and waiting for a tip. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 2bc0b42 | But you're wrong about that hating business. I mean about hating football players and all. You really are. I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey or this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hated them once in a while- I admit it- but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I din't see them i.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 040938c | Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one's sanity. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| df9771c | Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." - Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye" | J.D. Salinger |