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| 2990c0c | Never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder of the helpless. In securing any kind ofpeace, the first essential is to guarantee to every man the most elementary of rights: the right to his own life. Murder is not debatable. -Theodore Roosevelt | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7fc477d | Death often frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that someday death will come to us. It is a thought we try to push from our minds. We are uncomfortable when another's death rudely intrudes into our lives and reminds us of what we will face at some unknown future date. Death reminds us that we are creatures. Yet as fearsome as death is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God. When we.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a80449d | All true Christian love is one and the same in its principle. It comes from the same source or fountain and is communicated to the believer by the same Holy Spirit. In this love, both God and man are loved from the same motive, namely, for holiness' sake. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b0b2751 | All virtue that is saving, or distinguishing of true Christians, is summed up in Christian love. It is love that disposes us to honor God as God, to adore and worship Him. Love recognizes God's right to govern us and His worthiness to be the object of our obedience. At the same time, love disposes us to treat our neighbors with honor and respect. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8bee203 | Christian pilgrims live in tents. They are seminomads. They are never so at home in this world that they completely settle in. Life is always a frontier for them. The water they drink is never stagnant. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b7c403c | Everything we learn--economics, philosophy, biology, mathematics--has to be understood in light of the overarching reality of the character of God. That is why, in the Middle Ages, theology was called "the queen of the sciences" and philosophy "her handmaiden." Today the queen has been deposed from her throne and, in many cases, driven into exile, and a supplanter now reigns. We have replaced theology with religion." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| de5b073 | The day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father's house. | death eternal-life faith life-after-death resurrection | R.C. Sproul | |
| c95b852 | Mark Twain had a point when he concluded that it was not the parts of the Bible he did not understand that bothered him--but the parts he did understand!) | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 84d80a6 | There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" --C. S. LEWIS" | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| e29312a | if someone ever asks you, "Do you believe in evolution?" you should ask that person, "What do you mean by evolution? Do you mean micro- or macroevolution?" Microevolution has been observed; but it cannot be used as evidence for macroevolution, which has never been observed." -- | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| b812118 | Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 6b2835c | the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 8610d1b | In the Old Testament the Rose of Sharon is just budding, but in the New Testament it is in full bloom. The whole Bible is all about Jesus. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 9f841c9 | Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 9318953 | To tell you the truth: I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist." "You're an atheist?" "That's right!" "Well, are you absolutely sure there is no God?" I asked him. He paused, and said, "Well, no, I'm not absolutely sure. I guess it's possible there might be a God." "So you're not really an atheist, then--you're an agnostic," I informed him, "because an atheist says, 'I know there is no God,' and an agnostic says 'I don't know whether there i.. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 984c9ea | What amazes us is that parents all over the world are literally paying thousands of dollars in college tuition so that their sons and daughters can be taught the "truth" that there is no truth, not to mention other self-defeating postmodern assertions such as: 8220;All truth is relative" (Is that a relative truth?); " There are no absolutes" (Are you absolutely sure?); and, "It's true for you but not for me!" (Is that statement true just fo.. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| ec4fb84 | He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant. He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was 30. Then, for three years, he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a home. He didn't go to college. He never lived in a big city. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things that usually accom.. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| f3a15ba | Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was...what he could do. | life-lessons | Piers Anthony | |
| df7ec33 | Love truly is the most transformative power in heaven and on earth. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| ee67b83 | At what age did men mature? If ever? And at what age did a woman cease having to deal with men acting as if they owned the right to lustfully indulge in a woman, be it with his eyes or hands? There was more to a woman than a womb and breasts. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| e27239d | Innocence isn't something you should discard like an old shoe. It has a physical value--a passionate value--all its own." His frown deepening, he kept his gaze fixed on his leader's ears. "Innocence shouldn't be tarnished, it shouldn't be crushed. It should be made to bloom. I know." Those last two words were as much realization as assurance. "Getting innocence to bloom takes time, takes care and attention and expertise." His voice deepened.. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 52a5e2a | Come on-I'll see you back to your room and the estimable Martha." She put her hand in his and let him draw her to her feet. "Tomorrow...don't worry," he murmured, as he ushered her back through the darker side of the snug. "I'll be waiting in Carlisle to fall in behind the coach when you go past." Through the dimness he met her eyes. "I won't lose you." Her lips softly curved. "I didn't imagine you would." | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 6fd7688 | I'm going to have a nice little nap in this sun. Don't think to wander off-I'll know if you move. A very light sleeper, I am." Heather stared, speechless, at the woman who slept so soundly every night that she'd never heard Heather slip out of their room, or back in. Heather managed not to shake her head in disbelief, just in case Martha was watching through her lashes." | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| b20f2b1 | I have a request to make,my lord." He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered."And that is?" "Take me to your bed." | emotional feelings heart lord love romance strong-will surrender | Stephanie Laurens | |
| a7b916a | She did. She understood now what fate asked of her-to have the strength to hold on regardless. To acknowledge that, even if he died, even if he left her, she would still love him until the day she died. Love didn't care. Love simply was. Love was unconditional. Love was for ever more. She had faith in love. She believed in love. She would love him in life and in death. And if the chance came again she would convince him of that. As the nigh.. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| e75abad | I'm pleased-very pleased-that you've finally made your choice. It's about time you came to your senses." He arched a brow. "Even if it took a kidnapping to do it?" She nodded sagely. "Even so." She paused, then more gently asked, "She's the right one for you, isn't she?" He held her gaze, then nodded. "Yes. Definitely." He hesitated, then added, "I couldn't live without her." Caro's smile widened until she was beaming. "Wonderful. That's h.. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| b3c90cf | I'm unaccustomed to being cooped up all day-I really must insist that you permit me to enjoy a short walk." "Not on your life," Fletcher growled. From the sound, Breckenridge realized the group had moved closer to the tap. "You don't need to think you're going to give us the slip so easily," Fletcher said again. "My dear good man"-Heather with her nose in the air; Breckenridge could tell by her tone-"just where in this landscape of empty fi.. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| d37cb27 | But I've been dead much longer than I lived, and I have had the chance to educate myself in that that I lacked in life. I wasn't stupid when I lived, just ignorant. There's a lot to learn, simply by watching the follies of the living. | Piers Anthony | ||
| dfc8158 | All because he had tried to rescue a beautiful, vacuous girl from a dragon. In folklore, such a hero always received a most intriguing reward. In reality, the hero was as likely as not to find himself in need of rescue... | Piers Anthony | ||
| 15213f6 | Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will automatically reject novels that don't fit their narrow standards of length - or will chop out extra wordage to make a novel fit. | writing | Piers Anthony | |
| 4fc77be | Destiny is for the weak; strong men build their own lives. | John Marco | ||
| 86cbc00 | Things sometimes did not work out. Even if you wanted them to more than anything else. You couldn't will someone to love you back. You had to move on. | David Baldacci | ||
| ccfd588 | We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it." I" | David Baldacci | ||
| 6220c6f | It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. It was the gender equivalent of a preemptive nuclear strike. He thought it unfair and, quite frankly, disrespectful of the entire male population. | David Baldacci | ||
| 1280292 | She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field. | trouble | David Baldacci | |
| c53e836 | I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by. | David Baldacci | ||
| 5ad8cb4 | Zero Day was here. | john-puller the-forgotten | David Baldacci | |
| 8ad6f8c | In fact, something always leads to something else. | David Baldacci | ||
| cdf6ef1 | National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph over political gamesmanship. - Kelly Paul | David Baldacci | ||
| 8f7bf61 | There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough. | David Baldacci | ||
| fc0842e | Smart, dedicated people lost their lives all the time as they trained to be the best they could be to serve their country. Celebrities broke a nail and they immediately took to Twitter, alerting their millions of followers to the "injury," which in turn elicited thousands of replies from people with apparently not enough going on in their lives. And all the while brave men and women died in silence, forgotten by all except their families." | David Baldacci | ||
| 826ef50 | Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget. | forget memory regrets | David Baldacci | |
| d46c09d | her room now?" They were led down the hall by Beth. Before she turned away she took a last drag on her smoke and said, "However this comes out, there is no way my baby would have had anything to do with something like this, drawing of this asshole or not. No way. Do you hear me? Both of you?" "Loud and clear," said Decker. But he thought if Debbie were involved she had already paid the ultimate price anyway. The state couldn't exactly kill .. | David Baldacci | ||
| 738e2b8 | She glanced around at the tombstones. "You're surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job." "You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones." | caretaker death good-deeds graveyard inspiration life tombstones | David Baldacci |