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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 380f305 | I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 183b1a9 | 'Your beauty was the first that won the place, And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart, Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case, Unkindly met with rigour for desert;-- Yet not the less your servant shall abide, In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.' WILLIAM FOWLER. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| d87cf36 | She did not answer. She could not tell what words to use. She was afraid of saying anything, lest the passion of anger, dislike, indignation - whatever it was that was boiling up in her breast - should find vent in cries and screams, or worse, in raging words that could never be forgotten. It was as if the piece of solid ground on which she stood had broken from the shore, and she was drifting out to the infinite sea alone. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| d4db882 | It's no wonder to my mind, when I hear ladies talk such a deal about being ladies-- and when they're such fearful, delicate, dainty ladies too-- I say it's no wonder there are no longer any saints on earth___ | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| ca102d9 | It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may lead. | milton north south strike | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| d4553ab | By the soft green light in the woody glade, On the banks of moss where thy childhood played; By the household tree, thro' which thine eye First looked in love to the summer sky. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 242f15b | Why, they took nouns that were signs of things which gave evidence of wealth,--housekeepers, under-gardeners, extent of glass, valuable lace, diamonds, and all such things; and each one formed her speech so as to bring them all in, in the prettiest accidental manner possible. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 00338ba | La lealtad y la obediencia a la sabiduria y la justicia estan bien; pero es aun mejor desafiar el poder arbitrario ejercido de forma injusta y cruel, no en nuestra propia defensa sino en la de otros mas desvalidos. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 61f91c1 | As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was comparatively well. The characters were her companions in the quiet hours, which she spent utterly alone, unable often to stir out of doors for many days together. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 60f10c3 | My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim of "Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money." My precept is, "Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 7fe00ad | A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| b1eeb21 | Let us alone, little woman. We understand each other, don't we, doctor? Why, bless your life, he gives me better than he gets many a time; only, you see, he sugars it over, and says a sharp thing, and pretends it's all civility and humility; but I can tell when he's giving me a pill. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 5184de8 | only half of Roger's success was owing to his mental powers; the other half was owing to his perfect health, which enabled him to work harder and more continuously than most men without suffering. He said that in all his experience he had never known any one with an equal capacity for mental labour; and that he could come again with a fresh appetite to his studies after shorter intervals of rest than most | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 212b15f | You can never work facts as you would fixed quantities, and say, given two facts, and the product is so and so. God has given men feelings and passions which cannot be worked into the problem, because they are for ever changing and uncertain. God has also made some weak; not in any one way, but in all. One is weak in body, another in mind, another in steadiness of purpose, a fourth can't tell right from wrong, and so on; or if he can tell t.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1e83205 | Errands of mercy--errands of sin--did you ever think where all the thousands of people you daily meet are bound? | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 772eb4a | thou must believe that God will turn thy very silence, suspension, deprivation, and laying aside, to His glory, and the advancement of the Gospel's interest. When God will not use thee in one kind, yet He will in another. A soul that desires to serve and honour Him shall never want opportunity to do it; nor must thou so limit the Holy One of Israel as to think He hath but one way in which He can glorify Himself by thee. He can do it by thy .. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 16e260b | No one knows till they have tried, what power of bearing lies in them. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 7ffd007 | I know we differ in our religious opinions; but don't you give me credit for having some, though not the same as yours? | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 8ad2f5a | What we do here, matters. What we make here, matters. How we serve here, matters. If it is only about our destiny in the world to come, this world becomes a mere means to our true end; every person merely an object of evangelism. | James K. Wellman Jr. | ||
| 8b9e103 | When people stepped forward and said, "You have heard it interpreted this way, but I tell you it really means this," it was progressive for their day. They were making new claims about what it means to be true to the Bible. What is accepted today as tradition was at one point in time a break from tradition." -- | Rob Bell | ||
| 3cda70e | You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins." | Rob Bell | ||
| 2870679 | Eternal life then is a certain kind of life I am living more and more now and will go on forever.17 I am living more and more in connection with God, and I will live connected with God forever. This has huge implications for when I do stumble, when I sin and the old person comes back from the dead for a few moments. I admit it. I confess it. I thank God I am forgiven. I make amends with anyone who has been affected by my actions. And then I.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 4ef4c1e | But when we talk about God, we're talking about the very straightforward affirmation that everything has a singular, common source and is infinitely, endlessly, deeply connected. | Rob Bell | ||
| 9a02d1f | We cannot earn what we have always had. What we can do is trust that what God keeps insisting is true about us is actually true. | Rob Bell | ||
| 974589e | But it's in that disappointment, in that confusion, in that pain--the pain that comes from things not going how I wanted them to--that I find the same thing happening, again and again. I come to the end of myself, to the end of my power, the end of my strength, the end of my understanding, only to find, in that place of powerlessness, a strength and peace that weren't there before. | Rob Bell | ||
| b62d290 | Grace is when you aren't striving or controlling or trying to change or manipulate or make something happen. Grace is when you find yourself carried along, when all that's left to do is receive. Grace is when you know you're loved, exactly as you are. Grace is an entirely different way of experiencing life. | Rob Bell | ||
| a8b66bd | The way of Jesus is a journey, not a destination. | Rob Bell | ||
| e8cebe7 | This is how you remember God: you bless those who need it the most in the same way that God blessed you when you needed it the most. | Rob Bell | ||
| ddd503a | We need you to be you. We don't need a second anybody. We need the first you. | Rob Bell | ||
| e57bd30 | all of life matters, all work is holy, all moments sacred, all encounters with others encounters with the divine. | Rob Bell | ||
| 1bfd465 | We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust. | Rob Bell | ||
| 543793d | When you get married you're starting a conversation that never ends, | Rob Bell | ||
| db15f86 | When in doubt, assume that they're seeing something that you aren't. | Rob Bell | ||
| 9148786 | People deal with their shadow side in a number of ways, the most common way being to find outside enemies and point to them, demonizing them and blaming them for long lists of perceived evils. This strategy often does a very effective job of helping us avoid that which lurks within us. Politicians and radio talk-show hosts and pastors can become very skilled in this, constantly pointing out the darkness and evil and twisted ways of others t.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 005292d | We are not only working on our game, we are working on ourselves. | Rob Bell | ||
| 8cdc906 | The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best. | mental-toughness | Rob Bell | |
| 82f5aca | We are only as sick as our secrets. | mental-toughness | Rob Bell | |
| 3a53fba | First, the Bible has to be interpreted. When someone says they're just doing what the Bible says to do, they didn't greet you with a holy kiss, they're probably wearing two kinds of fabric sewn together, and there's a good chance they don't have tassels sewn on the corners of their garments, all things commanded in the Bible. They don't do those things because they don't believe those commands are binding on them today. And they don't belie.. | Rob Bell | ||
| ed2967d | To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is. | Rob Bell | ||
| 004439b | When a leader comes along who eliminates the tension and dodges the paradox and neatly and precisely explains who the enemies are and gives black-and-white answers to questions, leaving little room for the very real mystery of the divine, it should not surprise us when that person gains a large audience. Especially if that person is really, really confident. | Rob Bell | ||
| ac518bd | One morning recently I was surfing just after sunrise, and there was only one other surfer out. In between sets he and I started talking. He told me about his work and his family, and then, after about an hour in the water together, he told me how he'd been an alcoholic and a drug addict and an atheist and then he'd gotten clean and sober and found God in the process. As he sat there floating on his board next to me, a hundred or so yards f.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 89969db | He talks of the life that will come from his own death, and he promises that life will flow to us in thousands of small ways as we die to our egos, our pride, our need to be right, our self-sufficiency, our rebellion, and our stubborn insistence that we deserve to get our way. When we cling with white knuckles to our sins and our hostility, we're like a tree that won't let its leaves go. There can't be a spring if we're still stuck in the f.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 27d9623 | Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again." | jesus theology | Rob Bell | |
| dfad852 | Can your story be retold? Can all of the various things that have happened to you and the things you have done you'd prefer to never think about again and the embarrassing parts and the painful parts--can all of it be retold in such a way that the worst parts become the most powerful, poignant parts? And if that is possible for your story, is it possible for the history of the world? Can everything eventually be retold in such a way that th.. | Rob Bell |