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| f53ae03 | When asked about her involvements, Joni most often refers to her work at JAF Ministries, including Wheels for the World--a program through which used wheelchairs are collected, refurbished, and hand-delivered, along with Bibles, to needy disabled people in developing nations. Chuck Colson has stated, "My friend Joni Eareckson Tada is one of God's choice servants of today." Philip Yancey has added, "Through her public example, Joni has done .. | Joni Eareckson Tada | ||
| 1200ec8 | Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 0e86bd4 | A wise sufferer will look not inward, but outward. There is no more effective healer than a wounded healer, and in the process the wounded healer's own scars may fade away. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1f3a437 | Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 05552f6 | Frankly, I have seen even more graceless, not to say scurrilous, responses to Barack Obama from Christians. The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of adversarial power. In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square. Somehow the paramount command to love--even to love our enemies--gets lost. Seeing this, the watching world often finds i.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 5e08be2 | One prominent spiritual leader insists, "The only way to have a genuine spiritual revival is to have legislative reform." Could he have that backwards?" | Philip Yancey | ||
| a5fdd6e | The apostle Paul had much to say about the immorality of individual church members, but little to say about the immorality of pagan Rome. He did not rail against the abuses in Rome--slavery, idolatry, gladiator games, political oppression, greed--even though such abuses surely offended Christians of that day every bit as much as our deteriorating society offends Christians today. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 928cf9c | Indeed,"wrote C. S. Lewis142, "if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by .. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 6334dea | I believe the ability to love people as we should only comes from the security of knowing we ourselves are loved. For you cannot share what you do not have. Which is another reason we need the Holy Spirit--for He bears witness with our hearts that we are God's children, and dearly loved as well (Romans 8:15-16, 1 John 3:1). | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 771784d | Take my struggles and use them for your glory. But whatever you do, please don't leave me the same. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 39ece9e | When we're distracted and discouraged, tired and overwhelmed, there is no better place to go than to our Father. He alone has what we need. Don't snivel under a broom tree. Don't hide in a broom closet. Go to the Lord and let him sweep away your discouragement. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| a6049c5 | We are as intimate with God as we choose to be."7 The only limitations of God's presence in our lives are the limits we ourselves set--the excuses we set up to avoid being filled to the measure with God." | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 779702d | being teachable, in essence, involves three things: being willing to listen acting on what we hear responding to discipline | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 0d0cc73 | Do not be anxious about anything," Paul wrote in Philippians 4:6-7, "but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 591f555 | We all want a testimony, but we'd rather skip the test that gives us one. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 277e300 | For the first time, his wife was waking up in his arms...And if he'd known how it would feel to have her there, his heart bursting out of his chest and his throat so full and tight that he couldn't have spoken a word if he'd wanted too, Thom would never have been able to pass a single night away form her. He didn't know how he ever would again. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 12bf74e | His dark gaze searched her face. "Aren't you curious, inspector? A kiss--and only a kiss." Only a kiss . . . from someone who wanted her. Longing slipped through her, tugging at hopes best kept buried. Yes, Mina wanted to know. But she couldn't afford it. "No," she said. He smiled. "Liar." | kissing | Meljean Brook | |
| 7d29f5f | Maya's boyfriend, Ryan, happens to be the only other black kid in eleventh grade, and everybody expects us to be together. Because apparently when it's two of us, we have to be on some Noah's Ark type shit and pair up to preserve the blackness of our grade. | Angie Thomas | ||
| 2e4ce23 | When you let animals into your life, even as a foster parent, you are making a promise that you will take care of them for as long as it takes, until they find a home of their own. When they finally do leave, there's a part of them that stays with you and a part of you with them. | Ken Foster | ||
| 162a0ef | whenever we become the leader and try to make God the servant, things don't work out. Why? Because our EGO gets in the way, and we Edge God Out! If you want your life to be significant, then you have to recognize that it's all about God, not about you. As the old Yiddish saying goes, "If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans." | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| c0801fe | To learn from the past is good, but to live there is a waste. To plan for the future is good, but to live there is a waste. You are happiest and most productive in life when you are living in the present. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 66ad051 | Catching people doing things right provides satisfaction and motivates good performance. But remember, give praise immediately, make it specific, and finally, encourage people to keep up the good work. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| e386133 | An effective leader will make it a priority to help his or her people produce good results in two ways: making sure people know what their goals are and doing everything possible to support, encourage, and coach them to accomplish those goals. Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 2f4e174 | Feedback is important to people. We all want to know how well we're doing. That's why it is essential for an effective performance review system to provide ongoing feedback. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| d33e702 | Don't get a big head when you win or get too down in the dumps when you lose. Keep things in perspective. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| be1fa21 | One of the biggest obstacles to high performance in organizations comes from unclear expectations and accountability. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 46ce432 | If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 8358354 | This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 5f0bf4a | We all knew that we could grieve only for a short while in order to continue staying alive. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 5b4ec29 | We can be rehabilitated," I would emphasize, and point to myself as an example. I would always tell people that I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance." | Ishmael Beah | ||
| d32e25b | I didn't know what to do in my happy state. I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 0fccf06 | It was not easy being a soldier, but we just had to do it. I have been rehabilitated now, so don't be afraid of me. I am not a soldier anymore; I am a child. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 13e6c7b | We had not only lost our childhood in the war but our lives had been tainted by the same experiences that still caused us great pain and sadness. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 16d263a | One man carried his dead son. He thought the boy was still alive. The father was covered with his son's blood, and as he ran he kept saying, "I will get you to the hospital, my boy, everything will be fine." Perhaps it was necessary that he cling to false hopes, since they kept him running from harm." | Ishmael Beah | ||
| fe6b625 | Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun. | coming-of-age memoirs sierra-leone | Ishmael Beah | |
| 790e08b | America is the smart-aleck adolescent who's "been around" and has his own hot rod." | Ishmael Reed | ||
| e5a5db7 | If Orwell had a chance to write from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule. | Ishmael Reed | ||
| 12b7cbb | It was all about size now: the big ran the world on the sweat of the small, and if the big faltered for any reason, the small were the first to go. | Michael Koryta | ||
| a3986bd | You're too worried about figuring out what you can believe about all of this, and then figuring out how to control it. That's how most people approach their lives. Way I feel, though, after a lot of years of living? Not much of what matters in the world is under your control. You don't dictate, you adapt. That's all. So stop trying to control this, and start trying to listen to what it's telling you. | Michael Koryta | ||
| af73bdf | You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged. | Michael Koryta | ||
| 2580116 | She has always wanted you as a mate, Owen. | elizabeth-morgan paranormal-erotic-romance she-wolf werewolf-author werewolf-romance | Elizabeth Morgan | |
| db7ecd8 | Luca knows we're following him." His voice, soft and deep, seemed to roll right through to my bones. "We don't have time for you to shimmy up and down drainpipes like you usually do." My coat dropped in a heap on the floor, and I suddenly felt able to breathe without the hot, sticky weight of the leather clinging to me. Maybe we didn't have time to . . . . "Did you say shimmy?" He nodded. "I never shimmy. I climb." "Then you and I have diff.. | paranormal-romance-werewolves paranormal-series | Elizabeth Morgan | |
| 2862aa2 | Don't you like them?" She ran her fingers across the waistband of her panties. "I'm afraid I can't appreciate them in such low lighting. You will have to take them off and let me have a better look." He tried to smile innocently. She rested her hands on her hips and shook her head slowly. "Very well. I will have to do it for you." He took a step closer to her." | erotic-romance razel-dazzle urban-fairytale | Elizabeth Morgan | |
| cd5d0c7 | She had never been so affected by the idea of intimacy, but there was something about his eyes; something warm, and gentle even though she felt transparent every time he turned his attention on her; like he could see her, really see her. The idea of being so exposed to someone...it took her breath away. | erotic-romance fairytale-retelling rapunzel razel-dazzle urban-fairytale | Elizabeth Morgan |