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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b40f874 | What accounts for Luther's behavior? One things is certain: Whatever defense mechanisms normal people have to mute the accusing voice of conscience, Luther was lacking. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4723fd9 | Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| db360ce | Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds of stinky dippers, tending the garden God has put us in. This is why my dear wife vacuums the floor, for it is part of the garden she has been called to dress and to keep. But she is doing this not as raw duty, but because she understands that she is exercising dominion over the dust, for the glory of Christ. | homemaking tending-the-garden vision-for-the-home | R.C. Sproul Jr. | |
| e5dff3c | To suffer as a Christian carries no shame. Peter concludes: "Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator" (1 Peter 4:19). Here, Peter erases all doubt about the question of whether it is ever the will of God that we should suffer. He speaks of those who suffer "according to the will of God." This text means that suffering itself is part of the sovereign will o.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0e3d2dd | Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" (Job 13:15)." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 72db21c | We are not really surprised that God has redeemed us. Somewhere deep inside, in the secret chambers of our hearts, we harbor the notion that God owes us His mercy. Heaven would not be quite the same if we were excluded from it. We know that we are sinners, but we are surely not as bad as we could be. There are enough redeeming features to our personalities that if God is really just, He will include us in salvation. What amazes us is justic.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6d06173 | Why do so many Christians neglect the study of God's Word? R. C. Sproul said it painfully well: "Here then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy." | Donald S. Whitney | ||
| 822b9de | Jesus endured His suffering in order to redeem His people. But those He redeemed are not thereby delivered from all pain and misery. Indeed, as we shall see, we His people are called to participate in His suffering. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1138f83 | Jesus suffered so deeply because the extent of evil in the world is so vast. Every consequence of every sin of each one of His people was placed on Him. To carry this dreadful burden was His vocation. To bear this pain and disease was His mission. The magnitude of this horror is beyond our understanding. But He understood it because it was His to bear. Jesus endured His suffering in order to redeem His people. But those He redeemed are not .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4d98d74 | Everyone has the right to do his own thing. This slogan is as crass as it is silly. If it were followed by everyone resolutely, society itself would be an impossibility. No one would have any true rights protected, because it at any given moment my rights could trample your rights | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9bc08b1 | At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the attentions of a woman. This lasted about nine minutes. Then I was bored. | Piers Anthony | ||
| a4b4523 | I don't care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don't really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society. | Piers Anthony | ||
| f9301ab | As we look at the evidence in the ensuing chapters, we'll see that conclusions such as "God exists" and "the Bible is true" are certain beyond reasonable doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian." | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 124ed12 | a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| eeccb88 | Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life--reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| e391578 | Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God." --JAMES TOUR," | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 185382a | The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| b1e4769 | You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. 10 | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 5e7be4e | The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems.. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 081f14a | A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 8cfb1ac | So how are the wedding plans progressing?" Richard asked, once they were out of the village. "They aren't." Breckenridge heard his clipped tones, heard the irritation beneath. Didn't care if Richard did, too. "She's taken some nitwit notion into her head that I don't need to marry her, that she's going to go off and manage an orphanage in the country, or some such thing, so her social ruination doesn't matter." "Ah." Richard nodded sagely. .. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 417246c | he'd slumped beside her. " You can't fear losing me half as much as I fear losing you." It had been a grudging admission; he'd thought her already asleep." | losing-your | Stephanie Laurens | |
| bf9b609 | Get out of here, Antonia. Now." There was no real force behind the command, as if only a part of him meant it." | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| e007d67 | Conquerors didn't make polite requests. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| e09ca98 | And that's my point," Richard stated. "Do you remember when you stood there, in a ballroom or whatever, and watched her stalk off - and wondered what the hell was going on?" | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| aef8463 | Honoria ground her teeth. "What on earth am I to do with you?" Devil's features hardened, "Marry me." His voice was a frustrated growl. "The rest will follow naturally." | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 477b2ed | That's something for me to consider. So what else can you tempt me with?" Breckenridge hid a wry smile; he'd guessed that, in common with her female Cynster mentors, she'd be drawn to the prospect of managing a large household and the estate's people. Organizing ran in the blood. "I believe I mentioned that I'm under sisterly edict to marry. Unsurprisingly, a large and pertinent motive behind my sisters' prodding is the desirability of me b.. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 99e00b1 | I'm actin' pro se. Do you even know what that means?" "Yeah, it's Latin for 'dumbass." | David Baldacci | ||
| 917797f | I want you to know that if I could've stayed with you I would have. I fought as hard as I could. I will never understand why I had to be taken from you so soon, but I have accepted it. Yet I want you to know that there is nothing more important to me than you. I loved you from the moment I saw you. And the happiest day of my life was when you agreed to share your life with mine. I promised that I would always be there for you. And my love f.. | inspirational life love marriage powerful | David Baldacci | |
| 526e1af | People like to talk about other people's misery; it makes them feel their own life is somehow better when it usually isn't. | David Baldacci | ||
| 6bf3fc2 | If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish. | David Baldacci | ||
| a76d522 | love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by. | David Baldacci | ||
| 2710b93 | Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays. | David Baldacci | ||
| 523f57f | toward the small pond that he had seen before. The walls of fire ended there. An instant later the remains of the cottage exploded. He ducked and rolled again from the concussive force, almost pitching into the right side of the wall of fire. He rose and redoubled his efforts, thinking that he would reach the water. Water was a great antidote to fire. But as he neared the edge of the pond, something struck him. No scum. No algae on the surf.. | David Baldacci | ||
| 49f3475 | Lots of people don't talk about their military service." "I bet heroes do." "No. A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat." | David Baldacci | ||
| ce97c16 | The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like. | David Baldacci | ||
| 816f06f | His jumpsuit was white, and on the back were the letters D and R printed in black. They stood for "death row". Mars had equated it to a snake's rattle, warning folks to stay the hell away." | David Baldacci | ||
| 3779409 | Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. Womanlike, she set about changing all those things in him after marriage. | Betty Smith | ||
| daf20ce | The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library paste and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass. | Betty Smith | ||
| 3301c61 | I don't know. I don't know anything, really. I just feel. And when the feeling is strong enough, then I just say I know. But I don't... | Betty Smith | ||
| cb9c373 | And she doesn't have to worry about me, either. I don't need to drink to get drunk. I can get drunk on things like the tulip--and this night. | Betty Smith | ||
| d873ed0 | Anybody," said Johnny, carried away by his personal dream of Democracy, "can ride in one of the hansom cabs, provided," he qualified, "they get the money. So you can see what a free country we got here." "What's free about it if you have to pay?" asked Francie. "It's free in this way: If you have the money you're allowed to ride in them no matter who you are. In the old countries, certain people aren't free to ride in them, even if they hav.. | Betty Smith | ||
| aebee5b | But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things -- or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce. | recalling reminscing | Betty Smith | |
| 6e9395e | People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains--a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone--just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness." -- | Betty Smith |