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| d14f6dd | Don't be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should be known for the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. 1 PETER 3:3-4 | Francine Rivers | ||
| 53e72f6 | I promise to be with you, stay with you, love you, and laugh with you. I promise to listen and always look for new ways to show you how much I care. Most of all, I promise to lean on God through life's trials, tragedies and triumphs. Because if I lean on Him, you can always lean on me. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 4450c91 | Wherever people are praying, there's always hope. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 885915b | Sometimes God's voice is hard to hear over the world. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 1cfa7c4 | wished they could all be in heaven now, with no more death or dying or worries about which career path to take, which guy to love. "Life can be so hard." | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 0ee0c9c | idea that all of us are caterpillars, really. Furry little creatures scooting along the ground wondering why we can't seem to fly. And then God, in all His goodness, encourages us to crawl in a hole, bury our old selves, and die to the life we once knew. If we'll do that, if we'll trust Him with our entire existence, then He'll give us something beautiful in exchange. He'll give us wings. The ultimate wings come when we give our lives to Ch.. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| a4c6408 | Intimacy and sex are totally different things. Intimacy is a bond that God brings about between two married people. It comes from years of commitment, of sharing and talking and working through problems. Years of getting to know that person better than anyone else in life. A physical relationship with someone like that - that's intimacy. And anything less is a lie. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 117d758 | God doesn't measure big the way people measure big. Jesus had just twelve followers." He blinked a few times. "Fame is a demanding mistress." | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| bd08ba1 | Like that their dreams were set. They promised to push each other, to never settle for anything but the place where their hearts led. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 2da4563 | Dealing with evil was something only the Lord could do, and in His timing He most certainly would deal with it. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 597f9c2 | What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false. | George Eliot | ||
| a3913e2 | In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight. | apathy religion | George Eliot | |
| c2ce2e1 | Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another | George Eliot | ||
| 2a08528 | If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit. | intellect | George Eliot | |
| d314045 | Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man could choose not only his wife but his wife's husband! | humor social-norms | George Eliot | |
| 1c4fa4b | In general, one may be sure that whenever a marriage of any mark takes place, male acquaintances are likely to pity the bride, female acquaintances the bridegroom: each, it is thought, might have done better; and especially where the bride is charming, young gentlemen on the scene are apt to conclude that she can have no real attachment to a fellow so uninteresting to themselves as her husband, but has married him on other grounds. Who, und.. | tears tension | George Eliot | |
| fb1bacc | Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse. | victoriana | George Eliot | |
| f374e96 | He thought it probable that Miss Brooke liked him, and manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful. | George Eliot | ||
| eb725d0 | Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care But for another gives its ease And builds a heaven in hell's despair Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite." --W. Blake: Songs of Experience" | George Eliot | ||
| febbd50 | That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of divine power against evil- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle woth darkness narrower. | George Eliot | ||
| 3d7f51c | Expenditure-like ugliness and errors-becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others. | George Eliot | ||
| 031875e | Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim--one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. . Compare with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while . The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart. We have advanced. . | benefit bravery chance colossus eliot ernst-haeckel genius george-eliot glory haeckel heart heroic homage intellect king-william queen-victoria sacrifice sublime | Robert G. Ingersoll | |
| 4694afc | Then I shall tell you. It is because you are to me the chief woman in the world - the throned lady whose colours I carry between my heart and my armour. | George Eliot | ||
| 84fec88 | I know the way o' wives; they set one on to abuse their husbands, and then they turn round on one and praise 'em as if they wanted to sell 'em. | George Eliot | ||
| 8970939 | Of course people need not be always talking well. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well. | George Eliot | ||
| 8f5a76b | Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible, nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas--where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life h.. | George Eliot | ||
| 472d1dd | He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him. | history myopia perspective reading | George Eliot | |
| 683f283 | The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life. | people | George Eliot | |
| 6ae24b9 | The Squire's life was quite as idle as his sons', but it was a fiction kept up by himself and his contemporaries in Raveloe that youth was exclusively the period of folly, and that their aged wisdom was constantly in a state of endurance mitigated by sarcasm. | George Eliot | ||
| b2250ad | A great historian, as he insisted on calling himself, who had the happiness to be dead a hundred and twenty years ago, and so to take his place among the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under, glories in his copious remarks and digressions as the least imitable part of his work, and especially in those initial chapters to the successive books of his history, where he seems to bring his armchair to the prosce.. | George Eliot | ||
| 501ba1b | religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case, religion alone would have determined it; and Celia mildly acquiesced in all her sister's sentiments, only infusing them with that common-sense which is able to accept momentous doctrines without any eccentric agitation. Dorothea knew many passages of Pascal's Pensees and of Jeremy Taylor by heart; and to her the destinies of mankind, seen by the light of Christianity, made the solicitudes of fem.. | George Eliot | ||
| f881549 | So I am content to tell my simple story, without trying to make things seem better than they were; dreading nothing, indeed, but falsity, which, in spite of one's best efforts, there is reason to dread. | George Eliot | ||
| 9ff8866 | I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!" "Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better." "Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order." | husbands | George Eliot | |
| 5ceebfa | He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James. "No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parenthesis," said Mrs. Cadwallader." | George Eliot | ||
| ca3ab13 | There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives? | perspective | George Eliot | |
| 2510ba4 | He loved also to think, "I did it!" And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own." | dominion | George Eliot | |
| af79978 | In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on. | pain sovereignty-of-god | George Eliot | |
| 8c5a592 | Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which have no great name on earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is h.. | George Eliot | ||
| afbb639 | College mostly makes people like bladders-- just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. | education | George Eliot | |
| eed4e99 | Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal goldfish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass. Mrs. Tulliver was an am.. | George Eliot | ||
| 3c277ee | many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities and left to 'find their feet' among them, while their elders go about their business. Nor can I suppose that when Mrs Casaubon is discovered in a fit of weeping six weeks after her wedding, the situation will be regarded as tragic. Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people t.. | George Eliot | ||
| 194a987 | For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest. | George Eliot | ||
| f433e08 | It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is only to take effect at a distant day; then rush on to snatch the cup their souls thirst after with an impulse not the less savage because there is a dark shadow beside them forevermore. There is no short cut, no patent tram-road to wisdom: after all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which .. | temptation | George Eliot | |
| 3b9be1b | he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess. | George Eliot |