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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1670d46 | When you believe in something you put your whole heart into it. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| c901b8d | Things were good in her life--very good. God had spared her in more ways than one, and now she was exactly where she belonged. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| a20bf4a | Ever feel like God wrote a part of the Bible just for you? | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| cdae452 | We must look to the cross, to the ultimate sacrifice, the true source of hope. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| e88396c | Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 81814d5 | The way to stay connected to God was through His Word. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 31dac1a | But God had showed her where she needed to be, and the answer was clearer than water. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 7d0ee05 | And suddenly, there it was. The one thing they'd never discussed, never dared to imagine. At first he said nothing, but he didn't have to. His eyes told her that he was feeling the same way that she was. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 7ee90fe | He might've only been seventeen, but he knew he wanted Jenna in his life as long as he lived. | inspirational love romance | Karen Kingsbury | |
| 9663d00 | being a Christian oftentimes meant walking through dark places in the journey and living only on an unseen, unfelt faith. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| becef07 | God's still in control. Just like He was two thousand years ago. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 1909734 | The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 1a9d3b0 | Jamie, this is for you...Choose life, Jamie. Whenever you have the chance, choose life | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| fe4fe3f | smitten beyond words, and speechless in the presence of the girl he was falling for. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 9c7cc84 | You're winners not because of your record, but because of whose you are. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| ce3d65c | but a respectful hug that told her he wouldn't put her reputation on the line, not now or ever. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| ecbdab8 | Every poet begins (however 'unconsciously') by rebelling more strongly against the fear of death than all other men and women do. | poetry | Harold Bloom | |
| 77278f3 | To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also." -- | literary-criticism the-iceman-cometh tragedy | Harold Bloom | |
| f5a34f9 | Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us. | conventional-wisdom legacy literature self-perception | Harold Bloom | |
| ee5f42e | Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth. | frustrations obstacles pessimism | Harold Bloom | |
| bfc54e3 | Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers. | legacy perseverance | Harold Bloom | |
| ad85c00 | He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 7b8d487 | Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing. | discipleship idolatry vocation work worship | Harold Bloom | |
| b93f41a | The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 95ff34c | Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes | continuity politics reading timelessness | Harold Bloom | |
| b60036d | The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. Reading deeply in the Canon will not make one a better or a worse person, a more useful or more harmful citizen. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's conf.. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 4ced2e9 | At eighty-four, I can only write the way I go on teaching, personally and passionately. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 341afff | Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, is in the first place 'literary', which is to say personal and passionate. It is not philosophy, politics, or institutionalised religion. At its strongest - Johnson, Hazlitt, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, and Paul Valeer, among others - it is a kind of wisdom literature, and so a meditation upon life. Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not mer.. | literature | Harold Bloom | |
| 2c30a51 | Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. | stewardship | Harold Bloom | |
| d537584 | Don't be looking for trifles, Senor Don Quixote, or expect things to be impossibly perfect. Are not a thousand comedies performed almost every day that are full of inaccuracies and absurdities, yet they run their course and are received not only with applause but with admiration and all the rest? | Harold Bloom | ||
| 5075e35 | The democratic age mourns the value of human beings. | mortality | Harold Bloom | |
| 767590c | Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue." | inspiration maturation reading rhetoric vocabulary word-choice | Harold Bloom | |
| 37e8add | We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life. | literature loss reading relationships words | Harold Bloom | |
| ad2da92 | The Western Canon does not exist in order to augment preexisting societal elites. It is there to be read by you and by strangers, so that you and those you will never meet can encounter authentic aesthetic power and the authority of what Baudelaire (and Erich Auerbach after him) called "aesthetic dignity." One" | Harold Bloom | ||
| f3612d5 | The defense of the great works of Western literature can no longer be undertaken by central institutional power though it is hard to see how the normal operation of learned institutions, including recruitment can manage without them. | Harold Bloom | ||
| ada172e | One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies. | bias conventional-wisdom culture perspective reading | Harold Bloom | |
| 6f72ecb | I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments. | liberality openness optimism | Harold Bloom | |
| 545cd59 | Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. | culture heritage legacy originally | Harold Bloom | |
| b7378e7 | The inventor knows HOW to borrow. | communication evangelism heritage innovation legacy | Harold Bloom | |
| 2d44c92 | My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions. | Harold Bloom | ||
| d8f5368 | Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading...the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education. | Harold Bloom | ||
| fa1b661 | Reviewing bad books is bad for the character - WH Auden | culture influence reading | Harold Bloom | |
| 4a74e13 | I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a sociological phenomenon, an image of the death of the Literate Reader. | Harold Bloom | ||
| b595b0d | When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation." | bias conformity conventional-wisdom paranormal perspective romance science-fiction | Harold Bloom |