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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b2c28fd | nomenclature | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 93f8732 | at their disposal. So they assemble in protests to convey their objections. What's wrong with that? A similar outpouring came recently from American Walter Williams, one of my favorite columnists and a conservative economist known | Matthew Scully | ||
| e604c4c | Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now. | cops criminal emotions fake imitation interrogation police | Charlie Huston | |
| 70010aa | and look down the glowing store front of a 24 hr bodega. I am not overly concerned about going in there with one bare foot and a considerable amount of dried blood on my clothing. This is the Bronx after all. But best to minimize the visual impact I might make." | Charlie Huston | ||
| 564ba33 | At Marcy I spot what I am looking for and shimmy up a lampost and untangle the pair of sneakers that some kid has tossed up there that dangle in testement to some shit that I have never figured out as long as I have lived in this city. I sit on the curb and stuff my feet inside leaving the laces undone. There too small but the right one fits a little better than the left. Not having a big toe is already paying off. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 80a0a96 | Don't make me come out there and spray you, blanco. I point at my one eye. "Better have some sharpshooter fucking aim you want that shit to do any good." | Charlie Huston | ||
| cc8c0d6 | I could flay you and wear your skin as a cloak, and caper in the streets in the moonlight. But some might consider that crass treatment of a guest." I nod. "Well, some people got no sense of humor, do they?" "I am one of those people." | Charlie Huston | ||
| fd5649f | Sunt, dupa standartele omenirii, in toate mintile. E adevarat ca am ceva manii, dar nu frizeaza nebunia. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 15998d7 | There something I can do to get this over with quick? Like, can I just run in front of a cab and take my lumps and we call it even? As opposed to you cutting off my nose and all, I mean. | Charlie Huston | ||
| b17e892 | Or maybe this is the true order. To bring together the need with the thind that is needed. | Charlie Huston | ||
| f94598b | Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories. | discipleship history listening presentism urgency | Randy Alcorn | |
| f64b124 | We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers." --Burk Parsons" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5426a14 | Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day. | legalism regeneration renewal | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 30a14cd | Reality's such a pain sometimes, you know? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1e4a897 | Perhaps parents' greatest heritage to pass on to their children is the ability to perceive the multitude of God's daily blessings and to respond with continual gratitude. We should be "abounding in thanksgiving" (Colossians 2:7)." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 85fe26c | The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator." --Louis Pasteur" -- | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e31ba63 | God is the highest good of the reasonable creature, and the enjoyment of him is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows. But the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are b.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 3fdc725 | If we take God's Word seriously, we should avoid debt when possible. In those rare cases where we go into debt, we should make every effort to get out as soon as we can. We should never undertake debt without prayerful consideration and wise counsel. Our questions should be, Why go into debt? Is the risk called for? Will the benefits of becoming servants to the lender really outweigh the costs? What should we ask ourselves before going into.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| a589507 | We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children. | heritage parenthood | Randy Alcorn | |
| 5d19dbf | Our society holds to youthfulness with a white-knuckled grip. Ultimately it's all in vain. But the gospel promises us eternal youthfulness in God's presence. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| cd5aa5e | The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it." --Charles Spurgeon" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 331441a | Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!" --John Bunyan" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2ec5270 | Dr. Martin Luther King said, 'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 42ee463 | Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17)." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| af48d48 | Jesus came not only to save spirits from damnation. That would have been, at most, a partial victory. No, he came to save his whole creation from death. That means our bodies too, not just our spirits. It means the earth, not just humanity. And it means the universe, not just the earth. Christ's | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 737fda8 | There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" --C. S. Lewis" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d3cc945 | God is the Audience of One. There are no secrets from Him. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| a122bfb | He opened the first letter, No "Dear Mr. Woods." It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours." | humor | Randy Alcorn | |
| e93838d | A "planned economy" destroys Government because when men use force in an attempt to control productive energies, they have no means of knowing real costs, and these costs automatically increase at an increasing rate until the people can no longer pay them." | Rose Wilder Lane | ||
| a60a702 | We don't pretend all is well. But knowing God's commands to rejoice in him through his all-sufficient power, we meditate on his Word and call on him to impart his gladness to us. In time God exchanges our natural responses with his supernatural, joy-giving presence. Sometimes sorrow and joy do battle; sometimes they coexist, but when our hearts and minds are on Christ, joy is never far away: | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2acc381 | My father, Li Tong, used to say, 'Church leader who does not believe in God is like barefoot shoe salesman.' We call our bureau leader the Caiaphas of China." "What does that mean?" "You remember Caiaphas from the Bible?" "No." "Did someone take your Bible from you?" "No. It's on my shelf. Remember? I've got three of them." "Perhaps Ben Fielding should give two away and then start reading the other one." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| f42a3c2 | If God were to end history and reign forever in a distant Heaven, Earth would be remembered as a graveyard of sin and failure. Instead, Earth will be redeemed and resurrected. In the end it will be a far greater world, even for having gone through the birth pains of suffering and sin--yes, even sin. The New Earth will justify the old Earth's disaster, make good out of it, putting it in perspective. It will preserve and perpetuate Earth's or.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b4e90f8 | Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| af905e7 | God loves a cheerful giver" (2 Corinthians 9:7). This doesn't mean we should give only when we're feeling cheerful. The cheerfulness often comes during and after the act of obedience, not before it. So don't wait until you feel like giving--it could be a long wait! Just give and watch the joy follow." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2100d5b | Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense." --C. S. Lewis" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 75791f1 | When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8ee1ad3 | Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural--they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise--a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5d668f0 | If your faith is based on lack of affliction, it's on the brink of extinction and is only a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call away from collapse. Token faith will not survive suffering. Nor should it. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7aa76c5 | If I promised you a new car, would you say, "If it's new, it probably won't have an engine, a transmission, doors, wheels, or windows"? No, you'd never make such assumptions. Why? Because if a new car didn't have these things, it wouldn't be a car. Likewise, when Scripture speaks of a new Earth (2 Peter 3, and Revelation 21), we can expect that it will be a far better version of the old Earth, but it will truly be Earth." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 0d44be4 | To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God. | discipline obedience procrastination stewardship tithing | Randy Alcorn | |
| 0e82982 | The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients. | missions opportunity stewardship wealth | Randy Alcorn | |
| e19ca16 | British preacher Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) said, "Those who are 'beloved of the Lord' must be the most happy and joyful people to be found anywhere upon the face of the earth." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b312603 | Delaying giving as a strategy for future kingdom building is risky. We could hold on to assets out of fear of letting go or unwillingness to surrender control to the Lord. As long as money lies within our grasp, there's not only the danger that we'll lose the assets, but also that we'll change our minds or be seduced by the status, prestige, and recognition of controlling (or having our name attached to the distribution of) what belongs to .. | donation end-of-life-giving inheritance | Randy Alcorn | |
| 8a3abee | So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18, NIV)." | Randy Alcorn |