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| 0f072e7 | And we need to pray for our adult children to have an understanding of--and a desire for--the presence of the Holy Spirit so they can find all the freedom and liberty, deliverance and restoration, transformation and wholeness God has for them. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 2ce87f1 | The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies. PSALM 18:2-3 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; for He shall give His a.. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| b093414 | Prayer is much more than just giving a list of desires to God, as if He were the great Sugar Daddy/Santa Claus in the sky. Prayer is acknowledging and experiencing the presence of God and inviting His presence into our lives and circumstances. It's seeking the presence of God and releasing the power of God which gives us the means to overcome any problem. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| aaa437c | Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. ISAIAH 43:18-19 The Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. 2 TIMOTHY 4:18 You have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: t.. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| d315675 | Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness" (Proverbs 20:20)." | Stormie Omartian | ||
| e42b11c | Repentance means to change your mind. To turn and walk the other way. Repentance means being so deeply sorry for what you have done that you will do whatever it takes to keep it from happening again. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| a00007b | The more a family can be splintered apart, the weaker and more ineffectual they become, and the more the enemy has control of their lives. One way to avoid this is through prayer. When you cover your family relationships in prayer, whether it be with your children, parents, stepparents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, husband, or wife, there will be far fewer instances of strained or severed relationships. | parenting prayer relationships truth | Stormie Omartian | |
| 1a804e2 | Whether it's something that happened as long ago as your early childhood or as recently as yesterday, the past can keep you from moving into all God has for you. That's why He wants to set you free from it. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 52de787 | The Holy Spirit's desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That's because He wants to take us to places we've never been before. To heights we can't even imagine! | desire god holy-spirit inspiration love motivation prayer | Stormie Omartian | |
| 7d013da | Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle. | focus god prayer victory win | Stormie Omartian | |
| 7b5294a | It's the best of jobs. It's the most difficult of jobs. It can bring you the greatest joy. It can cause the greatest pain. There is nothing as fulfilling and exhilarating. There's nothing so depleting and exhausting. No area of your life can make you feel more like a success when everything is going well. No area of your life can make you feel more like a failure when things go wrong. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 822ad07 | Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| be3ef99 | When we find ourself in the dark, we must stop what we're doing, look for His light, and listen for His voice. If He is directing us, yet we ignore it, fail to see it, refuse to do it, run from it, don't comprehend it, or deliberately disobey it, we will be miserably lost. We have to be still and know that He is God. We have to reach out to Him and He will give us a sense that He is there. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| ec489a9 | A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5 | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 0c9a052 | Look through the unfinished entrance facade, note blue sky where the stained-glass windows would have been, and ponder the struggles, triumphs, and failures of the human spirit. | Rick Steves | ||
| 75ac255 | DDR Watchtower This was one of many such towers built in 1966 for panoramic surveillance and shooting (note the rifle windows, allowing shots to be fired in 360 degrees). | Rick Steves | ||
| 640870f | The French (and Europeans in general) place a high value on speaking quietly in restaurants and on trains. | Rick Steves | ||
| a67c511 | Room here," she says, proceeding to draw a line of the route. It doesn't look too far. I stand, taking the map from her, and manage to get out a comprehensible " ," which my says is actually pronounced . Who knew? She smiles again and everything seems to be perfect until I lose my mind and give her a slight bow. I'm in , not Asia." | Kristin Rae | ||
| da41b1b | St. Galgano was a 12th-century saint who renounced his past as a knight to become a hermit. Lacking a cross to display, he created his own by miraculously burying his sword up to its hilt in a stone, a la King Arthur, but in reverse. After his death, a large Cistercian monastery complex grew. Today, all you'll see is the roofless, ruined abbey and, on a nearby hill, the Chapel of San Galgano with its fascinating dome and sword in the stone. | Rick Steves | ||
| ab35728 | Via Banchi di Sopra and Via Banchi di Sotto These main drags in town are named "upper row of banks" and "lower row of banks." They were once lined with market tables (banchi), and rents were paid to the city for a table's position along the street. If the owner of a banco neglected to pay the rent for his space, thugs came along and literally broke (rotto) his table. It is from this practice--banco rotto, broken table--that we get the Engli.. | Rick Steves | ||
| 4f0021b | For example, new EU member Poland survived the communist era without collectivizing its small family farms. But now that they've joined the EU, collectivization is mandatory. | Rick Steves | ||
| e7d1392 | A plaque just outside remembers June 30, 1944. That night, Nazi forces were planning to blow up the arch to slow the Allied advance. To save their treasured landmark, Volterrans ripped up the stones that pave Via Porta all'Arco and plugged the gate, managing to convince the Nazi commander that there was no need to blow up the arch. Today, all the stones are back in their places, and like silent heroes, they welcome you through the oldest st.. | Rick Steves | ||
| 61c28dd | To me, understanding people and their lives is what travel is about, no matter where you go. | Rick Steves | ||
| 3a7dffa | Siena's claim to caloric fame is its panforte, a rich, chewy concoction of nuts, honey, and candied fruits that impresses even fruitcake haters. There are a few varieties: Margherita, dusted in powdered sugar, is more fruity, while panpepato has a spicy, peppery crust. Locals prefer a chewy, white macaroon-and-almond cookie called ricciarelli. | Rick Steves | ||
| 6b7e22a | Travelers recognize that the results of an election here in the US can have a greater impact on poor people half a world away than it does on middle-class American voters. My travels have taught me that, even if motived only by greed, you don't want to be really rich in a desperately poor world. With this in mind, I think of it not as noble or heroic, but simply pragmatic to bring a compassion for the needy along with me into the voting boo.. | Rick Steves | ||
| 240b8cb | In Denmark, "social trust"--a general feeling that you trust your fellow citizens and the pillar institutions of government, law courts, police, hospitals, and so on--is generally found to be the highest in the world. A perfect example of Danish "social trust" is the image of babies sleeping in carriages outside a restaurant while the parents eat inside. You might say, "But no one is watching!" A Dane will say, "Everyone is watching." | Rick Steves | ||
| 11fa80b | Europeans marvel at how Americans seem willing, almost eager, to work themselves into an early grave. My European friends have told me proudly, "We don't live to work...we work to live." | Rick Steves | ||
| 373532d | If boots do hit the ground in a war, Europeans believe it will be because they have failed to prevent it. They prefer endless diplomacy to once-in-a-while war. Europe's reluctance to go to war frustrates some Americans. I believe their relative pacifism is because Europeans know the reality of war, while most Americans do not. Of course, if you have a loved one who has fought or died in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Vietnam, you know what a war is... | Rick Steves | ||
| 238802e | Europe knows what a war is. It ripped itself to shreds twice within my grandparents' lifetime. Consider France's losses in World War I. France (with one-quarter as many people as we have) lost as many people as the US lost in the entire Iraq War--over 4,400 people--in one day...many times. They lost as many people as we lost in Vietnam (60,000) in one month. And then it happened again and again until, by the end of World War I, an estimated.. | Rick Steves | ||
| e579c5d | Here's a two-week alternative, which could include a few car days in southern Spain near the end of your trip: Start in Barcelona (two days); train to Madrid (five days total, with two days in Madrid and three for side-trips to Toledo, El Escorial, and Segovia or Avila); train to Granada (two days); bus to Nerja (one day, could rent car here); both Ronda and Arcos for drivers, or just Ronda by train (two days); to Sevilla (drop off car, two.. | Rick Steves | ||
| 4187250 | I asked my new friend, "Were you born here?" He thought about it, paused, and then said, "No, 'twas 'bout five miles down the road." Later, I asked him, "Have you lived here all your life?" He winked and said, "Not yet." | Rick Steves | ||
| 208a452 | This potato - is this potato named Steve?" She rolled her eyes. "No, stupid. That's Phil. The bread is Steve." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2f1c6a7 | I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9fa268b | What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When, | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 8ce56aa | You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| ded84e6 | The darkness keeps its own counsel. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| b235d96 | Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that? | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 3edb665 | If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world. | ireland irony | Adrian McKinty | |
| 1be88a2 | The driver had on Radio 1, which was giving us Kylie Minogue's 'I should be so lucky'....By the song's second verse I was already longing for an IRA ambush and and by the second chorus I was dreaming of a rogue comet strike. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 8b99c73 | popular short | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 19d2365 | Straley, Gary Phillips, Jim Nesbitt, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Tony Black. Vinny said, 'Nice list. | Ken Bruen | ||
| b2c4e44 | Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of? | fear | Adrian McKinty | |
| cb45abb | The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket. | police reading time | Adrian McKinty | |
| ea626a3 | What's news?" She put the magazine down and looked at me. "Philip K. Dick is dead." "Who's that?" I asked." | Adrian McKinty |