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| 54aad83 | Though experience should be our guide . . . and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago. | Allegra Goodman | ||
| 6ef2d39 | A peach, slightly unbalanced, so that it listed to one side, its hue the color of an early sunrise. Had George remembered their conversation at the party and left the peach for her to eat? Strange. For a moment she thought it might be a trompe l'oeil work of art, some fantastic piece of glass. She leaned over and sniffed. The blooming perfume was unmistakable. She touched it with the tip of her finger. The peach was not quite ripe, but it w.. | jess-bach peach scent | Allegra Goodman | |
| c49ab54 | Why are other people's prejudices so strange, while our own are so thought-out and reasonable? | Donna Leon | ||
| 1531bb3 | Vianello had the knack of getting people to talk. Especially if they were Venetians, the people he interviewed invariably warmed to this large, sweet-tempered man who gave every appearance of speaking Italian reluctantly, who was only too glad to lapse into their common dialect, a linguistic change that often carried its speakers along to unconscious revelation. | Donna Leon | ||
| 99f5581 | I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I love mystery novels and can plow through one in a single sitting. Some of my recent favorites are by Louise Penny, Jacqueline Winspear, Donna Leon, and Charles Todd. I finished reading Elena Ferrante's four Neapolitan novels and relished the story they tell about friendship among women. Our shelves are weighed down with volumes about h.. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 84e36f9 | He looked down at the glass again. 'I care that these things happen, that we poison ourselves and our progeny, that we knowingly destroy our future, but I do not believe that there is anything - and I repeat, anything - that can be done to prevent it. We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good". The best of us ca.. | Donna Leon | ||
| b4bee37 | In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life. | Lynda Barry | ||
| b1e97ea | As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating. | Lynda Barry | ||
| 142cd80 | Maybonne said "Just because someone has lace-up hip huggers does not mean they can control the world". Then Magreet let her wear those pants. When my aunt saw them on her she shouted "Are you trying to kill me?!" | ruling-the-world | Lynda Barry | |
| 994cc1e | Dear Blubbo, How is it going? It is fine here. My sisters are fine. Mom is usual. Everything is regular in life except I am still seeing the burning skull heads. Yesterday Mom took me to Sears for school clothes. I told my sisters I could see the people's head bones. They said DO NOT tell Mom. A guy moved a trailer onto the empty lot by our house. His skull is spectacular, many colors glowing. | school-clothes skull-heads | Lynda Barry | |
| 9636d57 | Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real. | lynda-barry disillusionment illusions childhood | Lynda Barry | |
| abe3890 | On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country but it might not be the same god as the god of the church and I might not be digging on the message of the president because the windmills of his mind are cracked on a lot of subjects concerning people. | Lynda Barry | ||
| 434cb0f | You may be a lady but your are still the man! | Lynda Barry | ||
| 85d328c | There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining a black light on life to illuminate the absurdity of it all. Comics tell you a truth you can only see from the underside of the psyche. At its best, comedy is prophesy and societal dream interpretation. At its worst it's just dick jokes. | life pastrix | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| b2a443d | I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors....Jesus could have hung out in the high-end religious scene of his day, but instead he scoffed at all that, choosing instead to laugh at the powerful, befriend whores, kiss sinners, and eat with all the wrong people. He spent his time with people for whom life was not easy. And there, amid th.. | christianity jesus faith love inspriational christian | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| f75eb5d | Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God's glory and the healing of God's world. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, your sins are forgiven, be now at peace. | religion god love holy-spirit grace son father sin | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 5e0ac1e | Seeing myself or my church or my denomination as "the blessing" -- like so many mission trips to help "those less fortunate than ourselves" -- can easily descend into a blend of benevolence and paternalism. We can start to see the "poor" as supporting characters in a big story about how noble, selfless, and helpful we are." | poverty self-centeredness | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 7ad7d2b | we actually have the authority to remind each other of the gospel and defy the darkness of living in a broken world by pointing to the light of Christ. We all need to have our bruised, papery hands held while someone else says, "You are forgiven, and you are loved." | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 3fa5058 | When what seems to be depression or compulsive eating or narcissism or despair or discouragement or resentment or isolation takes over, try picturing it as a vulnerable and desperate force seeking to defy God's grace and mercy in your life. And then tell it to piss off and say defiantly to it, "I am baptized" or "I am God's," because nothing else gets to tell you who you are." | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| fd9c5d3 | Purity most often leads to pride or to despair, not to holiness. Because holiness is about union , and purity is about separation . | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 6ae6f12 | When the forces that seek to defy God whisper if in our ears--if God really loved me, I wouldn't feel like this... If I really am beloved, then I should have everything I want... if I really belong to God, things in my life wouldn't suck--to remember that God has named us and claimed us as God's own. When what seems to be depression or compulsive eating or narcissism or despair or discouragement or resentment or isolation takes over, try pi.. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 34c867d | Which is exactly why our demons try to keep us from people who remind us how loved we are. Our demons want nothing to do with the love of God in Christ Jesus because it threatens to obliterate them, and so they try to isolate us and tell us that we are not worthy to be called children of God. And those are lies that Jesus does not abide. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| aae8a29 | Because sometimes the most holy thing we can say is: No. Not on my watch. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| cc6bbf7 | When I tell other Christians of my time with the goddess, I think they expect me to characterize it as a period in my life when I was misguided, and that I have now thankfully come back to both Jesus and my senses. But it's not like that. I can't imagine that the God of the universe is limited to our ideas of God. I can't imagine that God doesn't reveal God's self in countless ways outside of the symbol system of Christianity. In a way, I n.. | god gender | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 0640406 | Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 55df933 | This is exactly, when it comes down to it, why most people do not believe in grace. It is fucking offensive. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| f8ada9f | God's purpose in prayer is not for us to inform or persuade Him to respond to our needs but to open sincere and continual lines of communication with Him. Prayer, more than anything else, is sharing the needs, burdens, and hungers of our hearts with a God who cares. He wants to hear us and commune with us more than we could ever want to commune with Him, because His love for us is so much greater than our love for Him. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 121113a | The truth is, it doesn't matter what a verse means to me, to you, or to anyone else. All that matters is what the verse means! | bible-verse | John F. MacArthur Jr. | |
| 668d322 | For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 3bedcb3 | I am a free man, the slave of Christ; | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| ee2332a | The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| b27ea0f | Cansado do universo e sociedade, Da abstraccao que nao finda o que e fundo Do meu fatal por-olhos sobre o mundo, Pobre de amor e rico de ansiedade, Ja nada me seduz nem me persuade. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| d70200a | The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. | John M. Barry | ||
| aef0a09 | Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. It is a quote I try to live by. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 88b9d3e | Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer. | Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| fb57252 | Albert liked to play the stoic, and he embraced the opportunity to do over the negotiations about the marriage. He insisted that Uncle Leopold know what a great sacrifice he was making for the Saxe-Coburg family and Germany. As he gloomily lectured his uncle, 'troubles are inseparable from all human positions and...therefore if one must be subject to plagues and annoyances, it is better to be so for some great or worthy object than for trif.. | Kate Williams | ||
| 3b7e42e | O unico sentido intimo das cousas E elas nao terem sentido intimo nenhum. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 91799b6 | Pensar uma flor e ve-la e cheira-la E comer um fruto e saber-lhe o sentido. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| ad871b6 | Sim, eis o que os meus sentidos aprenderam sozinhos: -- As cousas nao tem significacao: tem existencia. As cousas sao o unico sentido oculto das cousas. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 1831fba | E talvez o ultimo dia da minha vida. Saudei o sol, levantando a mao direita, Mas nao o saudei, dizendo-lhe adeus, Fiz sinal de gostar de o ver antes: mais nada. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 8f3c1c7 | Being eternally at a point where two paths fork! | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 47350c5 | The search for the truth -- whether the subjective truth of one's own convictions, the objective truth of reality or the social truth of money or power -- always brings with it, if the searcher in question deserves the prize, the ultimate knowledge that the truth does not exist. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 286be26 | Nasce o ideal da nossa consciencia da imperfeicao da vida. Tantos, portanto, serao os ideais possiveis, quantos forem os modos por que e possivel ter a vida por imperfeita. A cada modo de a ter por imperfeita correspondera, por contraste e semelhanca, um conceito de perfeicao. E a esse conceito de perfeicao que se da o nome de ideal. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 9bc63a6 | Autopsychography The poet is a man who feigns And feigns so thoroughly, at last He manages to feign as pain The pain he really feels, And those who read what once he wrote Feel clearly, in the pain they read, Neither of the pains he felt, Only a pain they cannot sense. And thus, around its jolting track There runs, to keep our reason busy, | FERNANDO PESSOA |