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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9158583 | Recall that when the first presses produced copies of the Bible, the scribes who had to spend years at a time on the same work, just as it had been done for centuries, streamed out from the monasteries with quills raised in the air, decrying the work of the devil. When one of the pioneering tradesmen printed certain words in red ink to emphasize them, it was proof that he had used his own blood. That was why the printers' assistants began t.. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 9a3e672 | Survival here means simply an incomplete death, not a partial life -- to be trapped in a gap between the living and the dead. If I had a thousand tongues, I would not try to describe the agony! | Matthew Pearl | ||
| c290651 | These tears were difficult: they didn't want to come out and they didn't want to stay in. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 3f49f9d | Very few women understand how great is the hunger in a man to be near femininity...(b)ut if a woman wishes to give a most precious gift to a man, if she would truly feed this masculine hunger (a hunger that he will seldom show but that is always there), she will be very, very feminine when her man is in a mood, so he can get his bearings and be a man again. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 293f451 | Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely on unconscious expressions: war, violence, psychosomatic illness, neurotic suffering, and accidents are very low-grade ways of living out the shadow. Ceremony and ritual are a far more intelligent means of accomplishing the same thing. Ceremonies | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 0db63aa | Dreams are for little girls to whisper to each other. They don't really come true. I'm a fully grown woman now, Frances Catherine. I don't imagine impossible things. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 6650e66 | Okay, I'll ask. How come you're being sued? And how come you're so calm about it?" "I might as well be calm," she said. "Getting all worked up won't do any good." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 27360bc | Like it or not, she was going to belong to him. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 7a053f6 | A smile suddenly softened her rigid stance. "I've put Christina's satchel inside your carriage, Lyon. You've lasted a good hour longer than I imagined you would." Aunt Harriett wrapped Christina in a suffocatingly affectionate hug, then released her. "Be gentle this night," she instructed Lyon. "I shall." It was Christina who gave the promise. Both Lyon and his aunt looked at her. "She means me, Christina," Lyon said dryly. "You have only t.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 6cfbb66 | You don't tell someone you're going to marry her. You ask." He tried to kiss her again, but she turned her cheek, and he kissed her earlobe instead. "I asked your dad." "You did?" She sounded breathless. "What did he say?" "His exact words? 'Oh God, not another wedding." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 7e69fda | Family," she whispered. "So many people go through their lives with blinders on. They become self-involved and only want to think about their wants and their desires. They don't leave room for anything else, and then, too late, they realize how important their families were." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 51340d0 | It was a damned awkward undertaking, trying to think of loving words, and he had absolutely no experience in this area, but he was still determined not to muck it up. Even with his men watching, he wanted the words to be right, his declaration to be one she would always remember. The moment needed to be perfect for her. "Judith," he began. "Yes, Iain?" "I'm keeping you." | declaration-of-love | Julie Garwood | |
| ed6e428 | Appearances and manners often cloak a black soul. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 937424e | Abhor that which is evil; Cleave to that which is good. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 1ad1f44 | She started three wars the first week. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 7f7574a | Judith, do you take Ian for your husband?" She looked up at him before giving her answer. "We'll see" | Julie Garwood | ||
| adbe189 | Nathan had just announced that come hell or high water,he was going to fix his flower.He just needed time to find out how. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 362f8ce | People who want nothing need nothing more than power. | power society wealth | Rebecca McNutt | |
| e6e72ed | When some quality jumps from you onto another person, you have an opportunity; this is one of your best chances for an advance in consciousness. But you must differentiate carefully and not mix the gold with other levels of relationship. Gold is gold and that is enough. The Bible tells us, "Blessed are the pure in heart." Pure doesn't mean "good," it means "unmixed." Almost all psychological suffering results from a mixing of levels. I beli.. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| beab144 | The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 707d0b7 | Steve Perry versus Arnel Pineda. At his confused expression, I explain, "The guy on YouTube who gained a following for covering Journey songs...then eventually became the new lead singer for the band?" | music musician rock-band singer youtube | Christina Lauren | |
| 6ce12a5 | Don't stop believin'. Hold on to the feelin | Journey | ||
| 995e6d5 | If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. | holiness submission | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| b716b76 | Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3bc951b | Amy rang the bell when morning to gather the servants for prayers. The cook's small boy, pointing to the bell, said, "It's a god." 'I looked at the thing, it had a scratched face on the handle, and the face, he declared, was Ram's. I think the young scamp meant nothing more serious than a bit of mischief, but I knocked the bell handle off and pushed it into a fire which was burning near. He could never say again! They all looked on, serva.. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| bcd7eb9 | And so it often is. Faith, prayer, and obedience are our requirements. We are not offered in exchange immunity and exemption from the world's woes. What we are offered has to do with another world altogether. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 5c7ef39 | How long Lord must I wait? Nevermind child, trust me. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| d2fcac9 | But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| c351514 | Our loneliness cannot always be fixed, but it can always be accepted as the very will of God for now, and that turns into something beautiful. Perhaps it is like the field wherein lies the valuable treasure. We must buy the field. It is no sun drenched meadow embroidered with wildflowers. It is a bleak and empty place, but once we know it contains a jewel the whole picture changes. In my case, "selling everything" meant giving up the self-.. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| c4806db | Wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright...resist the temptation to trifle with other people's feelings. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 8034bf5 | Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties. | discipline holiness | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 0ac2f45 | It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things. | eternity holiness temporal | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 20a2e91 | He who had known the ceaseless worship of angels came to be a slave to men. Preaching, teaching, healing the sick, and raising the dead were parts of his ministry, of course, and the parts we might consider ourselves willing to do for God if that is what He asked. He could be seen to be God in those. But Jesus also walked miles in dusty heat. He healed, and people forgot to thank Him. He was pressed and harried by mobs of exigent people, go.. | holiness jesus | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 1db55a8 | St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted." | desirable difficulty disruption elisabeth-elliot gratefulness st-augustine thankfulness trials | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 99e48db | Senor Jaime," said little Moquetin, a bright-eyed imp of six, "why is it that your face is always red?" Jim countered, "Why is it that your face is always brown?" "Because it is much prettier that way," was the unexpected reply." | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| ada5fb6 | What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 63214f6 | When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| c0da5f3 | Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. He was given new assurance, and wrote to his parents of his intention to go to Ecuador. Understandably, they, with others who knew Jim well, wondered if perhaps his ministry might not be more effective in the United States, where so many know so little of the Bible's really message He replied: "I dare not stay home while Quiches perish. What .. | condemnationn jim-elliot missions | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 16efeb3 | Do the next thing." I don't know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend." | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 3612abb | The deepest things that I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| df9fdae | This is the context in which the story must be understood--as one incident in human history, an incident in certain ways and to certain people important, but only one incident. God is the God of human history, and He is at work continuously, mysteriously, accomplishing His eternal purposes in us, through us, for us, and in spite of us. | human-history incident loss | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| b281a6e | If He is God, He is still in charge. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| f5d747e | Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: 'Wherever you are, be all here. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| f5dfaf1 | We use certain authors at certain times of our lives, and we may never go back to them again. | Sam Weller |