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| cf41cc1 | And perhaps, Mrs. Morgan on Lanypwll Farm put all this much better in the speech of symbolism, when she murmured about the children of the pool. For if there is a landscape of sadness, there is certainly also a landscape of a horror of darkness and evil; and that black and oily depth, overshadowed with twisted woods, with its growth of foul weeds and its dead trees and leprous boughs, was assuredly potent in terror. To Roberts, it was a str.. | Arthur Machen | ||
| 171cc6d | Suddenly a chariot of fire appeared . . . and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. - 2 Kings 2:11 | Robert J. Morgan | ||
| b64f154 | Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath. | Robert J. Morgan | ||
| 29a76ee | The simple act of trusting God can be defined as acting as if God were going to keep His promises, however bleak the current circumstances may appear. | Robert J. Morgan | ||
| 97eca0d | Does Jesus Care? In a fit of despondency, the psalmist once bemoaned, "No one cares for my soul" (Ps. 142:4). But in the next verse he turned his gloom into a prayer, declaring to God, "You are my refuge." The word care occurs eighty-two times in the Bible, which frequently reminds us that when "the days are weary, the long nights dreary," our Savior cares. Frank Graeff wrote "Does Jesus Care?" in 1901, and it was set to music by the noted .. | Robert J. Morgan | ||
| f78bf1b | We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above... | christianity inspirational | Robert J. Morgan | |
| c09b579 | You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. - Isaiah 26:3 | Robert J. Morgan | ||
| d16d95c | It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well. | pondering practicality self-deception useful | John Steinbeck | |
| fb637ab | His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 2af6606 | Dead men don't pay for baths, haircuts, meals, or beds. Dead men don't buy new clothes, or ammunition, or saddles. Dead men don't desire fancy Coffeyville boots with Texas stars laid into the shank. They don't gamble, and they don't spend money on liquor or whores. And that was why, when the Texans got to Dodge, there was really only one rule to remember. Don't kill the customers. All other ordinances were, customarily, negotiable. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| f153a7c | I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell. Feelings are facts," she said, her voice a little hard, as she began to walk again. "Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If" | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 91d6cd2 | And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me? | god | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 378805a | God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess. | heartbreak | Mary Doria Russell | |
| b1dc068 | Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 426f49b | There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists. And Matthew 10:29. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 6b8af46 | You've seen what," Emilio conceded, "but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it--in the meaning." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 4d65abc | Whatever you worship will consume you, Dong-Sing wrote one week. Bob Wright worships money. Wyatt Earp worships justice. Eddie Foy worships applause. Doc worships home and family, as I do. How will this consume us? | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| a670d56 | The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life. One of his linguistics professors, a man named Samuel Goldstein, had helped him understand the consequences of that simple fact. Sam was Korean by birth, so if you knew his name, you knew he was adopted. "What got me when I was a kid was that people knew something fundamental about me and my f.. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 91a6291 | You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 5cf727c | What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren't human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 1305a22 | I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religion into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known? When we substitute concurrence for fact, fantasy quickly replaces knowledge. Why? Because knowledge is much more trouble to acquire! | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| f6c2e6d | The Elder is called Dee, first-born, of the Yarbrough lineage, whose landname is VaWaco. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 340de1f | When the bet is placed," he said, "a moment is carved away from the past and the future. In that enchanted moment, anything is possible. A man's debts and regrets and limitations disappear. He is buyin' the chance to imagine - for one moment at a time - that th enext card I deal will make him rich." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 4ccc4de | Wyatt Earp had been born, and born again, and now there would be a third life, for the iron fist that had seized his soul in childhood had lost its grip at last. The long struggle for control was over, and in its place, he found a wordless acceptance of a truth he'd always known. He was bred to this anger. It had been in him since the cradle. He'd never bullied neighbors or beaten a horse. He'd never punched the front teeth out of a six-yea.. | tombstone wyatt-earp | Mary Doria Russell | |
| f0dd688 | For five weeks, the Associated Press had provided the world with lurid coverage of the attack on Virgil Earp, which was labeled Cow Boy revenge for what was being called "the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" because it took too long to set the type for "Gunfight in the Vacant Lot behind Camillus Fly's Photography Studio Near Fremont Street." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| e6c0e17 | there are still times when the thief I started out to be feels more authentic to me than the priest I've been for decades. To be pulled out of a slum and educated is to be an outsider forever--" He stopped talking, deeply embarrassed. Giuliani could never understand the price scholarship boys paid for their education: the inevitable alienation from your uncomprehending family, from roots, from your own first person, from the original "I" yo.. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 4fc06c3 | Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine. She | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 25e0bc4 | Maybe God is only the most powerful poetic idea we humans're capable of thinkin'," he said one night, after a few drinks. "Maybe God has no reality outside our minds and exists only in the paradox of Perfect Compassion and Perfect Justice. Or maybe," he suggested, slouching back in his chair and favoring her with a lopsided, wily grin, "maybe God is exactly as advertised in the Torah. Maybe, along with all its other truths and beauties, Jud.. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 78aa794 | Like we say back home, when you find a turtle settin' on top of a fencepost, you can be pretty damn sure he didn't get there on his own. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| a35a418 | In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future." | religion sci-fi | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 0ae839c | Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, "She is heaven-good." They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 3dcccb1 | It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The" | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| ff7275e | And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| b16dc93 | The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter! | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 8b7ba15 | The first question I can answer, but the second is difficult indeed, for endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alch.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 2953fd6 | Why must this happen to me?" To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning out of the meaningless, and so provide the answer, though it was of my own making." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 517852e | The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 3120d92 | And from that time on the boys were no longer called Elder and Younger, but they were given school names by the old teacher, and this old man, after inquiring into the occupation of their father, erected two names for the sons; for the elder, Nung En, and for the second Nung Wen, and the first word of each name signified one whose wealth is from the earth. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| c0532e2 | Love must be taken on the tide, before it ebbs. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 663a29e | He lived in the rich city as alien as a rat in a rich man's house that is fed on scraps thrown away, and hides here and there and is never a part of the real life of the house. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 63b11bb | if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| fda473e | She rose and washed and dressed herself and braided her hair freshly, and having made her room neat for the day she went into the peach-tree garden. It lay in the silence of the spring morning. Under the early sun the dew still hung in a bright mist on the grass, and the pool in the center of the garden was brimming its stone walls. The water was clear and the fish were flashing their golden sides near the surface. The great low-built house.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| fca9eaa | Never reproach him with his own weakness, for then he will become wholly weak. Never let him feel that but for you he would be useless, for then he will indeed become useless. You must search for the few strong threads in him and weave your fabric with those, and where the threads are weak, never trust to them. Supply your own in secret. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9687935 | But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself. | Pearl S. Buck |