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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f950b5f | I don't want anything from you." "Liar," he accused, and lowered his mouth to mine." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 6c15495 | Have you ever had a moment where you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you were in the right place? That you were on the right journey? Maybe the sense that you'd crossed a boundary, jumped a hurdle, and somehow, after facing some unconquerable mountain, found yourself suddenly on the other side of it? When the night was warm, and the wind was cool, and a song carried through the quiet streets around you. When you felt the entire world.. | Chloe Neill | ||
| d68b826 | The moral of the story? Don't fuck with the magical order. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 83d0099 | Be grateful for your immorality, but do not deny them the honor of their mortality. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 5c1b7ae | They blew out a breath and did the thing all heroes must do--they took that terrifying first step. | heroes heroism | Chloe Neill | |
| 1fa3493 | I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college--by expending exorbitant time and energy showing what a great catch I am and what a perfect match we'd be, so that after a lengthy waiting period I might get accepted. But now the idea of reliving any version of that charade seems like hell. | college | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 8a64cfc | One of the pitfalls of having an ex-boyfriend is that people still pair you together in their memories, and sooner or later someone's bound to mention him. And now that it has happened . . . I can't say I feel nothing. I don't think it's possible to get royally dumped by the only boy I've ever done it with, let alone loved, and then feel nothing when he's brought up in conversation. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 7287bc1 | Whatever age you are when you're first burned is old enough to lose hope that you'll ever get excited about anybody else. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 942494e | I love where he and I stand right now. It's like we're on the brink, and everything's full of excitement and potential precisely because the heavy making out is still something to look forward to. I realize we can't remain PG-rated forever. I'm all too aware, though, how easy it is to let hooking up become the crux of a relationship. Then you forget how to just be together and why you should stay together. So for the meantime I'd like to ta.. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 71b8e7b | In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In each case, your dopamine is suppressing your serotonin. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| bf2371c | Just because the sexes are equal doesn't mean that sex is. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 4accc50 | In the beginning, I wanted his heart. Then I shifted focus to his body. I was never interested in only friendship. | love relationships sex | Daria Snadowsky | |
| dfaa04d | Undressing him reminds me of trying to change a sleepy, uncooperative four-year-old into his pajamas."-Dom" | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 5aa3958 | Did things get a lot hotter between you two? A little stove-top stuffing in the kitchen?"-Amy" | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 6935f31 | It sucks enough when girlfriends break plans with each other for a boy, but at least that's not against the natural order of things, like when a boy blows off his girlfriend for friends. . . . Or maybe I've had it wrong all along. Since friendships usually outlast relationships, why shouldn't friends receive preferential treatment? Because you don't sleep with your friends! | relationships sex | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 3d8f566 | It's sick how you can be intimate with someone one minute and then be furious with that same person the next. | relationships | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 78012a8 | I go back to my desk, flip open my cell, and stare at the keypad. I want to hear his voice so badly, to be connected to him, to ask him why and how and what I can do to make it better. But you can't force someone to love you. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| d9af9d6 | O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback--personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people and the glory of his name? Not if our God is the God of Ezra! Do you think these setbacks are not without some great purpose of righteousness bigger and more stunning than any of us can imagine? | John Piper | ||
| 5a278bc | Thus says the Lord: the meaning of Christmas is that what is good and precious in your life need never be lost, and what is evil and undesirable in your life can be changed. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can't be changed--these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy. It is Go.. | John Piper | ||
| fd2ec65 | Therefore, at the heart of the meaning of work is creativity. If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God--that is, if you are human--your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great. | John Piper | ||
| 78c54f2 | Jesus is not honored most by the exploration of various christologies, any more than your wife would be honored by your indecision concerning her character. Jesus is honored by our knowing and treasuring him for who he really is. He is a real person. A fact. A fixed, unchanging reality in the universe, independent of our feelings. Our feelings about him do not make him what he is. Our feelings about him reflect the value of what we think he.. | John Piper | ||
| 439c25f | Christian Hedonism is a philosophy of life built on the following five convictions: The longing to be happy is a universal human experience, and it is good, not sinful. We should never try to deny or resist our longing to be happy, as though it were a bad impulse. Instead, we should seek to intensify this longing and nourish it with whatever will provide the deepest and most enduring satisfaction. The deepest and most enduring happiness is .. | John Piper | ||
| fa4762e | The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most. | John Piper | ||
| d536c60 | The supremacy of God in all things is the great reward we long for in fasting. His supremacy in our own affections and in all our life-choices. His supremacy in the purity of the church. His supremacy in the salvation of the lost. His supremacy in the establishing of righteousness and justice. And his supremacy for the joy of all peoples in the evangelization of the world. | John Piper | ||
| eeae58b | Love is helping people toward the greatest beauty, the highest value, the deepest satisfaction, the most lasting joy, the biggest reward, the most wonderful friendship, and the most overwhelming worship--love is helping people toward God. | John Piper | ||
| cd6e82c | God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil. | John Piper | ||
| be31ada | Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. | John Piper | ||
| af29bb0 | O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have. | faith prayer pride religion | John Piper | |
| 0c76412 | I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers. | theology | John Piper | |
| 23c65cf | One might think that those who feast most often on communion with God are least hungry. They turn often from the innocent pleasures of the world to linger more directly in the presence of God through the revelation of his Word. And there they eat the Bread of Heaven and drink the Living Water by meditation and faith. But, paradoxically, it is not so that they are the least hungry saints. The opposite is the case. The strongest, most mature .. | John Piper | ||
| 384be19 | Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). | John Piper | ||
| 629de4c | My biggest concern about the effects of the prosperity movement is that it diminishes Christ by making him less central and less satisfying than his gifts. | John Piper | ||
| a5908d1 | Was that a tragedy? Two lives, driven by one great passion, namely, to be spent in unheralded service to the perishing poor for the glory of Jesus Christ--even two decades after most of their American counterparts had retired to throw away their lives on trifles. No, that is not a tragedy. That is a glory. These lives were not wasted. And these lives were not lost. "Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it" (Mark 8:3.. | John Piper | ||
| dc9774f | What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19)." | John Piper | ||
| 3a6b6b3 | He came to destroy sin because it is fatal. | life sin | John Piper | |
| 5baad92 | Loving God with all our mind means that | love thinking | John Piper | |
| 0b50a3d | The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death. | jesus resurrection | John Piper | |
| f089e8c | All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. | John Piper | ||
| d778b80 | God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others. | sex-and-the-supremacy-of-christ | John Piper | |
| f7e7f02 | This sounds very strange. Most of us think serving God is a totally positive thing; we have not considered that serving God may be an insult to him. | John Piper | ||
| 25417c0 | The Muslim world in general, the Arab world in particular was confirmed in its grievances, particularly that the West was prepared to use its overwhelming military superiority to keep Muslims subordinate. 'Europe', the Europe of the Franco-German plan to create a federal union strong enough to stand on terms of equality with the United States as a world power, had been humiliated by the failure of its efforts to avert the war. Liberal opini.. | middle-east military-history | John Keegan | |
| 85803a7 | Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues. | John Keegan | ||
| 86e941f | One of Picton's officers fell asleep the instant the halt was sounded and did not think of food until later in the night, when he woke to eat some chops cooked in the breastplate of a dead cuirassier (meat fried in a breastplate was very much in the Waterloo campaign, rather as rats spitted on a bayonet were to be in 1871 or champagne exhumed from chateau gardens in 1914). | John Keegan | ||
| 636dbbe | THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been broken at any point during the five weeks of crisis that preceded the first clash of arms, had prudence or common goodwill found a voice; tragic because the consequences of the first clash ended the lives of ten million human beings, tortured the emotional lives of millions more, destroyed the benevolen.. | John Keegan |