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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 91b730e | telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be about as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. Some | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2494c01 | What finally helped was an image from a medieval monk, Brother Lawrence, who saw all of us as trees in winter, with little to give, stripped of leaves and color and growth, whom God loves unconditionally anyway. My priest friend Margaret, who works with the aged and who shared this image with me, wanted me to see that even though these old people are no longer useful in any traditional meaning of the word, they are there to be loved uncondi.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3c1c816 | if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5644a48 | Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do--the actual act of writing--turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 50ed0ab | publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5cb2663 | whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don't take it all too seriously, that you don't fill up on junk food. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3f50cfb | What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life? | perfectionism | Anne Lamott | |
| cc230a7 | you begin to notice all the props surrounding these people, and you begin to understand how props define us and comfort us, and show us what we value and what we need, and who we think we are. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 403c444 | I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. | Anne Lamott | ||
| ec888f1 | Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. | Anne Lamott | ||
| aa39900 | In many spiritual and wisdom paths, it is written that God created us to have company and to be God's loving eyes and hands on earth. But in certain African Christian catechisms it says that God created us because He thought we would like it. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 320a486 | Writer Anne Lamott had a priest-friend tell her, "You can safely assume that you've created a God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." | Alex Early | ||
| 290c9d3 | I sometimes wonder if fear isn't just God's way of saying, 'Pay attention, this could be fun. | Craig Ferguson | ||
| 4573a22 | Underline this thought: assurance, peace, access to God, knowledge that He is our Father, and strength to overcome temptation all depend on this-the Son of God took our flesh and bore our sins in such a way that further sacrifice for sin is both unnecessary and unintelligible. Christ died our death, and now in His resurrection He continues to wear our nature forever, and in it He lives for us before the face of God. He could not do more for.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 344824b | When we see salvation whole--its every single part is found in Christ, we must beware lest we derive the smallest drop from somewhere else. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 698355a | The fallacy here? The subtle movement from seeing forsaking sin as the fruit of grace that is rooted in election, to making the forsaking of sin the necessary precursor for experiencing that grace. Repentance, which is the fruit of grace, thus becomes a qualification for grace. This | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 6fb567c | The knowledge of our union with Christ...gives us confidence in prayer. It was when Jesus had begun to expound the closeness of this union that he also began to introduce the disciples to the true heart of prayer. If Christ abides in us and we abide in him, as his word dwells in us, and we pray in his name, that God hears us (Jn 15:4-7). But all of these expressions are simply extensions of the one fundamental idea: If I am united to Christ.. | union-with-christ | Sinclair B. Ferguson | |
| 45e64f2 | Such contentment is never the result of the momentary decision of the will. It cannot be produced merely by having a well-ordered and thought-through time- and life-management plan calculated to guard us against unexpected twists of divine providence. No, true contentment means embracing the Lord's will in every aspect of His providence simply because it is His providence. It involves what we are in our very being, not just what we do and c.. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 921cd67 | That life begins with God's working, not with our "doing." | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 85f6a29 | Seeing human need with perfect clarity, Jesus felt it with unparalleled intensity. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 7e78821 | Faith is not the ground or basis upon which we are justified, but the means, the "instrument," by which we are united to Christ, in whom our justification, our "right-wising" with God, has been accomplished." | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 8aca09b | Go back to the school in which you will make progress in being a Christian. Study your lessons, settle the issue of ambition, make Christ your preoccupation-and you will learn to enjoy the privileges of being truly content. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 5262956 | Thus the essence of legalism is rooted not merely in our view of law as such but in a distorted view of God as the giver of his law. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 0343f32 | I am not asking you to do that because the tree is ugly--actually it is just as attractive as the other trees. I don't create ugly, ever!11 You won't be able to look at the fruit and think, That must taste horrible. It is a fine-looking tree. So it's simple. Trust me, obey me, and love me because of who I am and because you are enjoying what I have given to you. Trust me, obey me, and you will grow. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 70ea85f | the Son of God took our nature and came "in the likeness of sinful flesh" (Rom. 8:3) in order to exchange places with Adam, so that His obedience and righteousness might for our sakes be exchanged for Adam's (and our) disobedience and sin (Rom. 5:12-21). Exchange" | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| df1e3fb | Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not constitute the grounds on which Christ is offered to us. They may constitute ways in which the Spirit works as the gospel makes its impact on us. But they never form the warrant for repentance and faith. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 6c74058 | While some of his clerical opponents suggested that his proofs for God's existence are so obviously bad that they must have been designed by a devious atheist to in fact undermine the belief in God's existence, more secular-minded critics protested against Descartes's resorting to God as a deus ex machina to solve an epistemological quandary, and they questioned the propriety of relying on matters of faith in what should be a project of rat.. | Steven Nadler | ||
| 036b8a3 | I kill, therefore I am. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| c68f9b2 | The sensations he had were shared by many of the young, poor and beautiful: how unfair it was that they should be denied benefits which the old and ugly enjoyed. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 055ac26 | Burden thought irrelevantly that Wendy Williams must be attracted by bald men, first Rodney with his exaggerated forehead, naked as an apple, then this pebble-head. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 7fd3e0b | There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one ... | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 67ffdc6 | They remained the same and could be an endless source of pleasure and satisfaction. There might be people, or a person, of whom that was also true, but he had never, by the age of eighteen, come across any of them. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| a9f08d8 | Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?" He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear. If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained." | Reginald Hill | ||
| 1733ec7 | what counted was helping her father achieve his dream-and finding interesting stuff to put in her blog. | Mitali Perkins | ||
| 5203deb | Roosevelt and Lodge operated by a fairly straightforward and sensible credo: reform without power is meaningless, and power without scruple is corrupt. | Evan Thomas | ||
| 4a1dae5 | O'CONNOR WAS THE most powerful Supreme Court justice of her time. For most of her twenty-four-plus years on the Court, from October 1981 to January 2006, she was the controlling vote on many of the great societal issues, including abortion, affirmative action, and religious freedom, so much so that the press came to call it the O'Connor Court. | Evan Thomas | ||
| e1aaad4 | Since the Industrial Revolution, we've treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. But we aren't rock stars. In the scheme of evolutionary forces, we are a weak, fragile species. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1874be0 | The old woman sat in her leather recliner, the footrest extended, a dinner tray on her lap. By candlelight, she turned the cards over, halfway through a game of Solitaire. Next door, her neighbors were being killed. She hummed quietly to herself. There was a jack of spades. She placed it under the queen of hearts in the middle column. Next a six of diamonds. It went under the seven of spades. Something crashed into her front door. She kept .. | Blake Crouch | ||
| f6abb77 | If I wanted to bring you down, David, I could've done that months ago." "If I wanted you dead, Agent Hassler--you and everyone you love--there is nothing in the world stopping me from making that happen. Not from prison. Not from the grave." "So we've established trust," Hassler said. "Perhaps. Or at the very least, assured mutual destruction." "No difference in my book." | Blake Crouch | ||
| c2a01b2 | A millennium without air or light pollution made for pitch-black skies. The stars didn't just appear anymore. They exploded. Diamonds on black velvet. You couldn't tear your eyes away. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 3f251db | Why would I seek out a world like that?" "Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs. Fixing things as an adult that hurt you as a child. Maybe it doesn't make sense at a surface level, but the subconscious marches to its own beat. I happen to think that world taught us a lot about how the box works." Passing" | Blake Crouch | ||
| fa789cd | If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 59630c1 | I stare down into her eyes, smoky and glistening in the light stealing through the window. Eyes you can fall into and keep falling. She isn't the mother of my son, she isn't my wife, we haven't made a life together, but I love her all the same, and not jsut the version of Daniela that exists in my head, in my history. I love the physical woman underneath me in this bed here and now, wherever this is, because it's the same arrangement of ma.. | love mate partner sex wife | Blake Crouch | |
| 7f83b17 | We are spread across the country now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade of the twenty-first century, although occasionally we regress and rant. To journals. Our fellow dinosaurs. To our children who bring their children to visit us in nursing | Blake Crouch |