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| 4ef0eb0 | The shame of emotion overpowered them; they cursed a little, to prove they were good rough fellows; and in a mellow silence, Babbitt whistling while Paul hummed, they paddled back to the hotel. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| d89c749 | Lord, why can't the women let you alone? Just because once or twice, seven hundred million years ago, you were a poor fool, why can't they let you forget it? | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 018ab73 | HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 34dffe5 | It was not an esthetic room. Though Frank Shallard might have come to admire pictures, great music, civilized furniture, he had been trained to regard them as worldly, and to content himself with art which 'presented a message,' to regard 'Les Miserables' as superior because the bishop was a kind man, and 'The Scarlet Letter' as a poor book because the heroine was sinful and the author didn't mind. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| ae8f738 | And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?' 'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be. | john-wesley | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 68e4754 | The Wonderlust--probably it's a worse affliction than the Wanderlust. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 04802ce | It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness, of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment...the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is slavery self-sought and self-defended. It is dullness made God. A savorless peop.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 60956d9 | When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he'll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young human slaughter cattle in uniforms. | government hypocrisy war | Sinclair Lewis | |
| e50c363 | In matrimonial geography the distance between the first mute recognition of a break and the admission thereof is as great as the distance between the first naive faith and the first doubting. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 42e3c19 | The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. | spirit-of-the-wesr | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 9fe333d | All this working land was turned into exuberance by the light. The sunshine was dizzy on open stubble; shadows from immense cumulus clouds were forever sliding across low mounds; and the sky was wider and loftier and more resolutely blue than the sky of cities... she declared. "It's a glorious country; a land to be big in" | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 3f58d24 | People will think they're electing him to create more economic security. Then watch the Terror! God knows there's been enough indication that we can have tyranny in America-the fix of the southern share-croppers, the working conditions of the miners and garment-makers, and our keeping Mooney in prison so many years. But wait till Windrip shows us how to say it with machine guns! | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 6be3efb | Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| edceff6 | I don't pretend to be a very educated man, except maybe educated in the heart, and in being able to feel for the sorrows and fears of every ornery fellow human being. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 6ae655c | He wanted to honor Shad for the sweaty shirt, the honest toil, and all the rugged virtues, but even as a Liberal American Humanitarian, Doremus found it hard always to keep up the Longfellow's-Village-Blacksmith-cum-Marx attitude consistently and not sometimes backslide into a belief that there must be crooks and swine among the toilers as, notoriously, there were so shockingly many among persons with more than $3500 a year. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 042cc7e | Believing that only under God Almighty, to Whom we render all homage, do we Americans hold our vast Power, we shall guarantee to all persons absolute freedom of religious worship, provided, however, that no atheist, agnostic, believer in Black Magic, nor any Jew who shall refuse to swear allegiance to the New Testament, nor any person of any faith who refuses to take the Pledge to the Flag, shall be permitted to hold any public office or to.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| db4a999 | Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not possibly! We're a country of freemen." "The answer to that," suggested Doremus Jessup, "if Mr. Falck will forgive me, is 'the hell it can't!' Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical--yes, or more obsequious!--than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch over Louisiana, and how the Right Honorable Mr. Senator Berzelius Win.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| cf6d647 | But plenty things like this happened before Buzz Windrip ever came in, Doremus," insisted John Pollikop... "You never thought about them, because they was just routine news, to stick in your paper. Things like the sharecroppers and the Scottsboro boys and the plots of the California wholesalers against the agricultural union and dictatorship in Cuba and the way phony deputies in Kentucky shot striking miners." | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 1a0e8ef | We go back to the Dark Ages! The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin! It would just take a few thousand big shells and gas bombs to wipe out all the eager young men, and all the libraries and historical archives and patent offices, all the laboratories and art galleries, all the castles and Periclean temples and Gothic cathedrals, all the cooperative stores and motor factories--every storehouse of learning. No inhe.. | culture dark-ages fragility | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 3909331 | She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun. She was a good woman, a kind woman, a diligent woman, but no one, save perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware that she was alive. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| c125069 | He was permitted, without restriction, to speak of himself as immoral, agnostic and socialistic, so long as it was universally known that he remained pure, Presbyterian, and Republican. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 998d754 | the strength which is raised to such a degree that a man dares lose himself shall shew him how God is found, | Arthur Edward Waite | ||
| fc86fd4 | God doesn't mock us. He never gives us a goal that we cannot accomplish in His strength. I want to assure you, you can glorify God, you MUST glorify God. But you have to determine deep within your heart that you're going to do it His way. | god life strength | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| 48b4257 | Tribulation brings about perseverance." Thlipsis cultivates hypomon which means "remaining under" in the literal sense and "patiently enduring" in the figurative. Naturally, when the pressure builds we should take reasonable measures to relieve the discomfort. No one is suggesting we volunteer for pain or ignore the opportunity to eliminate it. But sometimes there is no solution, no remedy, no relief. Sometimes we cannot avoid or escape the.. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 4e8d301 | A selfless devotion. High-impact people don't care about who gets the credit, and they never complain about the role they fill. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 6eecb87 | Nothing can compensate for a lack of authenticity. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 42651cd | We are fortified by exemplary lives, especially those who have earned the right to be respected by their character, sacrifice, patience, and ability to press on in spite of hardship, injustice, pain, and failure. Our heroes do not have to be perfect. They must, however be courageous, authentic, clear-minded, and determined to endure no matter the sacrifice or cost. We need heroes of integrity and consistency, admirable men and women we can .. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 5602cde | A. W. Tozer says, "A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation." | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 6e25aff | During the hiding time I lived for the day that the war would end, when I would be able to go into the hiding place, throw open the doors, and say to my friends, "Now go home!" This was not to be. Perhaps when the time comes for me to join Jan and our friends in the hereafter, I'll push aside the bookcase, walk behind it, climb the steep wooden stairway, careful not to hit my head on the low ceiling where Peter nailed the old towel to it. U.. | Miep Gies | ||
| ffa3b76 | You are deeply and completely loved (Rom. 8:38-39). You are totally and completely forgiven (1 John 2:12). When God sees you, he sees the righteousness of Jesus (2 Cor. 5:21). You mean the whole world to him (John 3:16). He thinks you are beautiful. Right now (Song 4:1). He is committed to your restoration (Rom. 8:29). You are not now, nor have you ever been, alone (Heb. | Stasi Eldredge | ||
| 14c9a25 | Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people. | hatred people | Francine Rivers | |
| 7573988 | It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent. | silent tongue | Francine Rivers | |
| c83716f | What do you want of God, Roman?" It was an imperious question from so small a boy, and was said with a curious blend of humility and demand. "I'll know when I face him." "Perhaps the answers you seek can't be found in something you can see and touch." Amused, Marcus smiled. "You have big thoughts for a small boy." The boy grinned. "A shepherd has time to think." "Then, my little philosopher, what would you advise?" The boy's smile faded. "W.. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 09a4a20 | Michael straightened. "I still married her, and I'd marry her again if I had it to do over." A simple statement, calmly and quietly delivered, but his eyes were burning with wrath." | Francine Rivers | ||
| 7597e1c | She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently? | Francine Rivers | ||
| d2da21b | None of them, not even he, seemed to realize they weren't just physical beings, that God had left a mark upon them by the simple fact of his creation. They preferred their idols, tangible, possessing, capricious characteristics like themselves, easily understood. They wanted something they could manipulate. God was inconceivable, intangible, incomprehensible, unexploitable. | Francine Rivers | ||
| c092e59 | Jonathan closed his eyes. Oh, God, it's not the way I had things planned. But then, what of real, lasting value ever is? | Francine Rivers | ||
| e1653e5 | Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute? | Francine Rivers | ||
| d172568 | This god that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This god wanted all of her. | Francine Rivers | ||
| ac05017 | We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You've tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I've seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God, | Francine Rivers | ||
| 0ab122b | Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. HOSEA 6 : 1 | Francine Rivers | ||
| 11b6adb | She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge. | christ jealousy love obedient revenge thought | Francine Rivers | |
| dbd0d05 | Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. PROVERBS 19 : 21 | Francine Rivers | ||
| 9b4e656 | We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many. | peace proclaim speak time truth | Francine Rivers |