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| 44bb7c2 | The late Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical American author, wrote: "For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the beatitudes. But--often with tears in their eyes--they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the beatitudes, be posted anywhere." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 05224fb | Absolute ideals and absolute grace: after learning that dual message from Russian novelists, I returned to Jesus and found that it suffuses his teaching throughout the Gospels and especially in the Sermon on the Mount. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1dd944e | True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. | Philip Yancey | ||
| c5d7d1c | On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside...it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct... (pp.80)" | grace mystery | Philip Yancey | |
| 74a647d | The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us from following in his steps today? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 255d84b | I have mentioned that no one offers the name of a philosopher when I ask the question, "Who helped you most?" Most often they answer by describing a quiet, unassuming person. Someone who was there whenever needed, who listened more than talked, who didn't keep glancing down at a watch, who hugged and touched, and cried. In short, someone who was available, and came on the sufferer's terms and not their own." | Philip Yancey | ||
| ed5c900 | Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 227897d | We decided to attend to our community instead of asking our community to attend the church." His staff started showing up at local community events such as sports contests and town hall meetings. They entered a float in the local Christmas parade. They rented a football field and inaugurated a Free Movie Night on summer Fridays, complete with popcorn machines and a giant screen. They opened a burger joint, which soon became a hangout for lo.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| c394c91 | Herein lies the most solemn challenge facing Christians who want to communicate their faith: if we do not live in a way that draws others to the faith rather than repels them, none of our words will matter. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3bcf191 | a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 149bbd5 | Shouldn't we be presenting an alternative to the prevailing culture rather than simply mimicking it? What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement? | Philip Yancey | ||
| b3f2717 | grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less. It means that I, even I who deserve the opposite, am invited to take my place at the table in God's family. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e3c1b20 | The gospel presents both high ideals and all-encompassing grace. Very often, however, the church tilts one direction or the other. Either it lowers the ideals, adjusting moral standards downward, softening Jesus' strong commands, rationalizing behavior; or else it pulls in the boundaries of grace, declaring some sins worse than others, some sinners beyond the pale. Few churches stay faithful both to the high ideals of gospel and its bottoml.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| bccf648 | The first thing that the boy called Smoke told Nick Waters was: "Your biology book's in my locker. The combination is 5-3-5." And the second thing he said was: "I didn't do that fire, man. I'm innocent." | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 3fd083e | You from the IRS? The man's voice was deep and wet, like mud slipping down a drain. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| e9e6124 | From the bow of the canoe she asked, "Do you know a rain dance?" "First I need a virgin." | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 8447542 | So you and St. Clair seemed pretty at breakfast." "Um." Is she threatened by me? "I wouldn't get any ideas if I were you," she continues. "Not even pretty enough to steal him from his girlfriend. They've been together " Was that a compliment? Or not? Her emphasizing is really getting on my nerves. (My ) Amanda gives a fake, bored yawn. "Interesting ." I touch it self-consciously. "Thanks. My friend bleached it." Bridge added the thic.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 3450eb2 | Not because he was a decent block, mind you. He was an arse. But he was a shirt arse, like meself. (Napoleon) | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 12c3409 | If I never leave those areas of my life that feel comfortable, I'll never have a chance at a greater happiness. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 15636de | Emily Zola.That's only the second woman I've seen down here. What's up with that?" But before St. Clair can answer, the grating voice says, "It's ." We turn around to find a smug guy in a Euro Disney sweatshirt. "Emile Zola is a " My face burns. I reach for St. Clair's arm to pull us away again,but St. Clair is already in his face. "Emile Zola a man," he corrects. "And an arse. Why don't you mind your own bloody business and leave her.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ebb0493 | Place the boldest color where I want people to look. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 624ba31 | El mundo guarda silencio salvo por los latidos constantes de nuestros corazones. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 01e8d2e | Quiero besarlo por el resto de la noche, por el resto de nuestras vidas. El indicado. Su sabor es salado como la niebla del mar. Pero tambien es dulce, como... --Cerezas --dice. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ee505eb | Is it weird being in Omaha?" Simini asked her. "Now that everybody's left?" "It's like walking through the mall after it closes," Mags said." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 7997dbd | Hey,508! Your room is right above mine. You never said." St. Clair smiles. "Maybe I didn't want you blaming me for keeping you up at night with my noisy stomping boots." "Dude.You stomp." "I know.I'm sorry." He laughs and holds the door open for me.His room is neater than I expected. I always picture the guys with disgusting bedrooms-mountains of soiled boxer shorts and sweat-stained undershirts,unmade beds with sheets that haven't been c.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 15931d7 | I chuck my bag into his lap,perhaps a little too hard.St. Clair and jerks forward. "Watch it." Josh bites into a pink apple and talks through a full moouth. "He has parts down there you don't have." "Ooo,parts," I say. "Intriguing. Tell me more." Josh smiles sadly. "Sorry. Privelged information.Only people with parts can know about said parts." St. Clair shakes the rest of the leaves from his hair and puts on The Hat. Rashmi makes a face .. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| a9604d7 | I've learned that if I never leave those areas of my life that feel comfortable, I'll never have a chance at a greater happiness. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b142f5f | Habia pasado tantas noches oscuras tratando de olvidarme de Cricket. No parecia justo que el se hubiera olvidado de mi. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5ae202a | I don't know. No one has ever so completely confounded me the way you do. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| fcaddda | See that guy over there?" I nod toward a man in jean shorts and a Budweiser T-shirt. "Am that obvious?" St. Clair squints at him. "Obviously what? Balding? Overweight? Tasteless?" "American." He sighs melodramtically. "Honestly, Anna. You must get over this." "I just don't want to offend anyone. I hear they offend easily." "You're not offending anyone except me right now." "What about her?" I point to a middle-aged woman in khaki shorts a.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d6251c4 | Anna? Anna,are you there? I've been waiting in the lobby for fifteen minutes." A scrambling noise,and St. Clair curses from the floorboards. "And I see your light's off.Brilliant. Could've mentioned you'd decided to go on without me." I explode out of bed. I overslept! I can't believe I overslept! How could this happen? St. Clair's boots clomp away,and his suitcase drags heavily behind him. I throw open my door. Even though they're dimmed t.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6f48707 | Relax," he says, "You're with me. I'm practically French." "You're English." He grins. "I'm American." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 3bef87d | Well, you don't have to be such a bloody git about it." "I wasn't being a git. I wasn't even been a twat, or a wanker, or any of your other bleeding Briticisms-" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| bf5f1ba | She pulled the pot of apple balm from her pocket. [...] Eli snatched it from her palm and hurled it into the darkness, into the lake. 'Hey!' Gracie protested. 'Why would you do that?' He took a deep breath. His shoulders lifted, fell. 'Because I've spent nine months thinking of apples.' "Heard, Scales, Tongue, Tail" by Leigh Bardugo" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 4412d6a | Josh grins. "Just give me your hand." "W--what?" "Your hand," he repeats. "Give it to me." I extend my shaking right hand. And--in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true--Joshua Wasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A staggering shock of energy shoots straight into my veins. Straight into my heart. "There," he says. "I've been waiting a long time to do that." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5ca4cc0 | My voice grows even smaller. 'Because I thought no one could love me.' 'And why did you think that?' 'Because I didn't think I was worth loving. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| baf6f46 | Cricket tells a joke and turns to see if I'm laughing, if I think he's funny, and I want him to know that I do think he's funny, and I want him to know that I'm glad he's my friend, and I want him to know that he has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever known. And I want to press my palm against his chest to feel it beat, to prove he's really there. But we cannot touch. | cricket-bell lola-and-the-boy-next-door lola-nolan love romance | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 5f7c0eb | People live through such pain only once; pain comes again, but it finds a tougher surface. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5ec87ea | What are we doing?" Mags asked. "I don't know...." he said eventually. "I know things have to change, but ... I can't lose you. I don't think I get another one like you." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 50c9fc9 | The distance between us feels too close, too far, too close. | romance ya-contemporary ya-contemporary-romance | Stephanie Perkins | |
| e61ace0 | It had been so long since Makani had felt any amount of genuine, unadulterated happiness that she'd forgotten that sometimes it could hurt as much as sadness. His declaration pierced through the muscle of her heart like a skillfully thrown knife. It was the kind of pain that made her feel alive. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 62d6f4e | He turns back to me. "So did you enjoy the book?' "I did." Discomfort lingers between us. "Did you?" St. Clair considers it for a moment. "I like the author's name the best," he finally says, "Ba-nah-na." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 69e3e90 | When it's right, it's simple," he says to my unasked question. "Unlike your hair." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b40b7b6 | North could have kissed her. He could have done it, he could have swooped in, but he was being respectful. It made her want to devour him whole. Or be devoured whole. | Stephanie Perkins |