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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a90084e | That week we tried everything to bury our heads in the sand. But the problem remains the same world over; the sand is never quite deep enough. | Bill Carter | ||
| c0c76de | In this journey we call life, we are all ultimately alone. | Bill Carter | ||
| 86ce2b8 | I should have been moved. I wasn't. It was as if I'd been frozen, as if I was now a woman made of ice, and he'd come at me not with a torch or even a candle, but with a toothpick, and was plink plink plinking against the smooth impenetrability of my body. I couldn't feel a thing. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 36fe022 | He had sacrificed so much -- And now? What if not even all that was enough to quiet that voice....the voice that said, 'You're not worthy, you don't deserve it, nothing you do will ever be enough. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 5fabe67 | I miss him all the time." I shook my head, disgusted at my own mopiness. "It's like being haunted or something. And I don't have the luxury of being haunted right now. I need to think about myself..." | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 8fcf607 | How do you find happiness in a body like yours...like mine? How do you find courage to follow anything anywhere if you don't feel like you fit in the world? | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| b68c9c0 | Did any love ever feel as sweet as first love? Were we all just damaged goods now, battered cans in the grocery store sale bin, day old bread, marked down at the registered, hoping that someone would look past the obvious flaws and love us enough to take us home? | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 679e0d2 | Jo thought sometimes that Bethie liked to play at being a rebel, when the truth was that her sister had a genius for conformity, for making herself the best, most stylish example of whatever version of femininity was currently in fashion. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| a75ff10 | You don't think she ever loved your dad?" Shelley shook her head. "I think, for her, it was more like taking a job than falling in love. If you've been bred to marry a rich man and have his babies and basically be decoration, and you have no skills and no idea how to support yourself, how many options do you really have?" | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| c67c63c | She knew she'd be hearing that voice, those words, on an endless loop in her brain, maybe for the rest of her life. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| e927436 | drawing of a boy with brown hair and | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 8ee8ff7 | room and refused to return to the table, even | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| e5ed315 | Bethie and Harold glowed, with success and contentedness, and with, Jo thought, a little meanly, the kind of well-rested good looks you could have only when you were childless. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| bf43953 | He's a great guy, she said ,and he heard her try to sound enthusiastic,like she was selling herself on her soon-to-be-husband's greatness...and then,in a whispered rush, just before she cut the connection,he thought he heard her say,"Sometimes I wish it had been you" | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 9d06e11 | Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough? | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 870c94c | She loved [her daughters]. More than that, she admired them. They would be better than she was: stronger and smarter, more capable and less afraid, and if the world displeased them, they would change it, cracking it open, reshaping it, instead of bending themselves to its demands. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| d8069c7 | The thing about bad decisions is that they don't feel like bad decisions when you're making them. They feel like the obvious choice, the of-course-that-makes-sense move. They feel, somehow, inevitable. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| b31960e | When your mom and I were your age, there weren't a lot of options for girls. Like, you know how your mother's always telling you that you can be anything you want to be when you grow up? That wasn't what we heard. Men could be doctors or lawyers. We were just supposed to marry them. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| ca6ba87 | The problem was, he'd never told me what he wanted, which meant I never got to think about whether it was what I wanted, too. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 316bcf8 | If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that says, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." The secret to happiness is found in obedience to God." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 53e7705 | The journey has but one guarantee: Christ promises to go with us and to bring us out the other side. Our Lord finishes what He starts. He does not abort His handiwork in the middle of its creation. He does not leave us staring at walking trees. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6ea673f | Sanctification is a process. It is a gradual process. Run for your life from those who promise you instant sanctification. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9468a8b | The kingdom of God is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is a kingdom ruled by a King, and God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not. 'The | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 59da736 | If we are unconverted, one thing is absolutely certain: We hate God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b0858c5 | When you struggle with your faith, when you face the dark night of the soul, when you are not sure of where you stand with the things of God, flee to the Scriptures. It is from those pages that God the Holy Spirit will speak to you, minister to your soul, and strengthen the faith that He gave to you in the first place. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6f2fbdf | The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f932a2a | Kung asks the right question. The issue is not why does God punish sin but why does He permit the ongoing human rebellion? | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 98a3fdf | Jacob's Ladder represents a bridge between Jacob's secular mindset to make it in this world and the reality of Heavenly things. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 960649f | Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ. | R.C. Sproul Jr. | ||
| 54af758 | We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 324b9bf | If we are going to deal with the discipline of Bible study, we must recognize at the outset that we will need the grace of God to persevere. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9c2a89a | Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9fc3e16 | En terminos de su proposito eterno, Dios ha estimado que es bueno permitir que el mal ocurra en este mundo. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| aaed2a8 | God delights to hear the prayers of His people when they individually ask, "Lord, what do you want me to do?" The Christian pursues God, looking for His marching orders, seeking to know what course of action is pleasing to Him. This search for the will of God is a holy quest-a pursuit that is to be undertaken with vigor by the godly person." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| fe2305c | If I think of the ballot as a potential bullet, I will be more careful when I vote. The word vote comes from the Latin word votum, which means "will." When I cast my vote, I express my will. Indeed, if my vote is decisive or a part of the winning majority, then I am not merely expressing my will but imposing my will on others. Many people think that the vote is merely a means to express personal desires or to seek personal gain, usually at .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4721c3a | Sin can be pleasurable, but it never brings happiness. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9590ac5 | what better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received? | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ace5f06 | faith is central to the motivation of the human heart to live in a way that honors God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| eeafbcb | Chance is a perfectly good word to describe mathematic possibilities, but it is only a word. It is not an entity. Chance is nothing. It has no power because it has no being; therefore, it can exercise no influence over anything. Yet, we have sophisticated scientists today who make sober statements declaring that the whole universe was created by chance. This is to say that nothing caused something, and there is no statement more anti-scient.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2cf5eed | For the Christian, there can be joy in the midst of suffering, joy that transcends the pain of the moment. But we don't really understand the grounds for this joy in the house of mirth. We discover it in the house of mourning. It is in weeping that we learn to contemplate the goodness of God. It is in mourning that we discover the peace of God that passes understanding. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3284ce9 | It distresses me somewhat to hear a person say, "I am a born-again Christian." What's wrong with such a statement? Well, what other kind of Christian is there? If rebirth is absolutely essential in order to get into the kingdom of God, as Jesus said it is, there cannot be such a thing as a non-born-again Christian. To say "born-again Christian" is like saying "Christian Christian." It's a redundancy, a kind of theological stuttering." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ef9058d | The redeemed of God who are snatched from the flames by the hand of the Lord are still covered with ashes. We remain streaked with charcoal and blemished with soot. We are redeemed, but not sinless. Satan is quick to call attention to the dirt. He wants us to be more conscious of our sin than of God's mercy. | christianity forgiveness grace guilt shame sin | R.C. Sproul | |
| db88b3c | God's grace is resistible in the sense that we can and do resist it. It is irresistible in the sense that it achieves its purpose. It brings about God's desired effect. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5e1f196 | Prayer is one of the most important means of grace that we have to strengthen our faith. Prayer is not for God's benefit. We don't pray to give Him information that otherwise He would not have. We don't pray to give God our counsel so as to improve His administration of the universe. Rather, prayer is for our benefit. It is a God-given way for us to spend time with Him, to praise and thank Him, and to make our requests known to Him. Afterwa.. | R.C. Sproul |