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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d450a91 | An exciting summer began for the four Alden children with the bang of a door. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| e077cd4 | I love you. I believe it. I believe I am lovable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world? | Franny Billingsley | ||
| b5095a0 | The first meeting of the Fraternitus Bad-Boyificus was also to be my first fighting lesson. I made a fist and showed it to Eldric. "Fistibus Briony." I shook my fist. "Eldric terrorificorumest?" "Terrific? I'm terrific!" "Not terrific!" I said. "Quite the opposite. Listen carefully: terrorificorum." "Hmm," said Eldric. "Grant me patience, O Jupiter Magnificum!" "Not terrified!" shouted Eldric at last. "never terrified of Briony's fistibus!.. | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 501a228 | you can't get at a memory as you might get at a splinter. You can't poke about in your mind with a sterilized needle | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 9808650 | When you're jealous, your spit turns to acid. When you're jealous, you eat yourself from the inside out | Franny Billingsley | ||
| e604b5f | When you hate yourself, you don't neglect your responsibilities. When you hate yourself, you never forget what you did | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 573b4a3 | Never punch from the elbow." "Of course not," I said. "Only a stupidibus would fight like that." Guess what? I can punch as well as make people laugh." -- | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 1068fd8 | Engagement is not a matter of either speaking or doing; not a matter of either offering a compelling intellectual vision or embodying a set of alternative practices; not a matter of either merely making manifest the richness and depth of interior life or merely working to change the institutions of society; not a matter of either only displaying alternative politics as gathered in Eucharistic celebrations or merely working for change as the.. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 3ae0118 | This is a book about worshiping the true God and letting the true God act in us. It tells us as plainly as possible that the true God is a God who cannot stop giving and forgiving, and that our knowledge of this true God is utterly bound up with our willingness to receive from the hand of God the liberty to give and forgive. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 20cb399 | Sin is here the kind of purity that wants the world cleansed of the other rather than the heart cleansed of the evil that drives people out by calling those who are clean "unclean" and refusing to help make clean those who are unclean. Put" | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 46c0440 | For those familiar with the early history of the Christian church--and for careful observers of young and vibrant Christian communities in the non-Western world--there is something odd about the present sense of crisis in the West. The early Christian communities were not major social players at all! They were not even among the cheering or booing spectators. Slandered, discriminated against, and even persecuted minorities, they were at mos.. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| fc63456 | When we forget that, we unwittingly reduce God's ways to our ways and God's thoughts to our thoughts. Our hearts become factories of idols in which we fashion and refashion God to fit our needs and desires. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 0ebf0fa | Slowly and imperceptibly, the one true God begins acquiring the features of the gods of this world. For instance, our God simply gratifies our desires rather than reshaping them in accordance with the beauty of God's own character. Our God then kills enemies rather than dying on their behalf as God did in Jesus Christ. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 8d06235 | G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next." | Miroslav Volf | ||
| af3de72 | To live in sync with who we truly are means to recognize that we are dependent on God for our very breath and are graced with many good things; it means to be grateful to the giver and attentive to the purpose for which the gifts are given. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| b37624c | God's gifts aim at making us into generous givers, not just fortunate receivers. God gives so that we, in human measure, can be givers too. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 2a917f0 | Notice that, in making ourselves available, we are not doing God any favors. We give ourselves for God's use to benefit creation, not to benefit God. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 9a219d8 | The cure against Christian violence is not less of the Christian faith, but, in a carefully qualified sense, more of the Christian faith. I don't mean, of course, that the cure against violence lies in increased religious zeal; blind religious zeal is part of the problem. Instead, it lies in stronger and more intelligent commitment to the Christian faith as faith. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 8a77122 | Some theologians claim that all God's desires culminate in a single desire: to assert and to maintain God's own glory. On its own, the idea of a glory-seeking God seems to say that God, far from being only a giver, is the ultimate receiver. As the great twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth disapprovingly put it, such a God would be "in holy self-seeking . . . preoccupied with Himself"10. In creating and redeeming, such a God would give, .. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 5256df6 | All sufferers can find comfort in the solidarity of the Crucified; but only those who struggle against evil by following the example of the Crucified will discover him at their side. To claim the comfort of the Crucified while rejecting his way is to advocate not only cheap grace but a deceitful ideology. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 6c2ae65 | the central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good? | Miroslav Volf | ||
| c7fbdd6 | Miroslav Volf puts a finer, harder point on this: we are substantially defined not only by those we love but by who our enemies are. Our own identities are shaped by our interactions with them. As a Croatian Protestant, he was defined by the identity and convictions of Serbian Christians. We are all, whether we wish it or not, in profound relationship with our enemies, especially when that relationship is a combative one. When we respond in.. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 48ff30d | justice makes charity less necessary | Krista Tippett | ||
| d767d75 | God is that force that drives us to really see each other and to really behold each other and care for each other and respond to each other. And for me, that is actually enough. That cultivating it, that thinking about it, worshipping it, working towards it, taking care of it, nurturing it in myself, nurturing it in other people, that really is a life's work right there, and it doesn't have to be any bigger than that. God doesn't have to be.. | care community compassion empathy god life-force love religion soul spirit wisdom | Krista Tippett | |
| c54758d | moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes when I plunged my mind into the Bible's puzzles; and it was always there in the music of church. I wouldn't have said it this way then. But I would feel all the cells in my body as I sang hymns that connected my little life with the grandeur of the cosmos, the Christian drama across space and time. This was my earliest experie.. | christian church faith hymns love mind music mystery on-being pantheism reality spirit | Krista Tippett | |
| c1f6891 | Healing," said the poet, "is not a science but the intuitive art of wooing nature." | Krista Tippett | ||
| 652073d | We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this--the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings--is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival. It is changing us, collectively. It is even renewing religion, and our cultural enc.. | belief choice community diversity energy ethics faith god human life life-force love moral-imagination mystery new-humanism nonbelief religion reverence ritual spirituality tribe wisdom | Krista Tippett | |
| 4486108 | This realization unsettled my sense of personal progress and education: it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty." | Krista Tippett | ||
| afe1459 | She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about." -- | Alice Munro | ||
| 259cb5c | We have to be educated by the other. My heart cannot be educated by myself. It can only come out of a relationship with others. And if we accept being educated by others, to let them explain to us what happens to them, and to let yourself be immersed in their world so that they can get into our world, then you begin to share something very deep. You will never be the person in front of you, but you will have created what we call communion. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 5e57b39 | Contentment is not something I've known much in my life and not something I ever really knew I wanted. This, too, is the body's grace--a gift of physiology, right there alongside my fading hair and skin. At younger ages, our brains are tuned to learn by novelty. At this stage in life, they incline to greater satisfaction in what is routine. Slowing down is accompanied by space for noticing. I am embodied with an awareness that eluded me whe.. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 6b93f87 | It was a fact that he hadn't lied to her--except for the time he had promised to cut out her tongue and hadn't. She couldn't very well hold that against him. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 1d2e0b7 | Come here, little one." "I want to go back." He hoped she stood there arguing for a time. "Obey your husband." She wrinkled her nose. "It's broad daylight." " , come." Growing tired of just looking when he could be touching, Hunter cocked his head and let her see him leering. He was awarded a fetching glimpse of slender, creamy thighs and honey gold. She gasped and dropped to her knees as if someone had dealt a blow to the backs of her legs.. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 6f56f33 | Bad things happen, Mathew. We can't see them coming, and there's often nothing we can do to prevent them. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't all live life to its fullest. | live | Catherine Anderson | |
| 0cae170 | We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 2685f5c | As the mother of a small boy, she had developed a bad habit of carrying a little of everything in her purse, not to mention all the little treasures that Jeremy had given her--pretty rocks, a wilted violet, a ring he'd made from braided pine needles. The collection was a junky-looking mess. When the stranger picked up an unwrapped peppermint candy with more hair on it than stripes, Chloe wished the floor planks would separate and swallow he.. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| dbe8e1a | Mother's Eden: Does your Matthew... Well, does he make you feel as if he just handed you a handful of Stars? Eden: He make me feel as if he handed me the moon as well, Mama. Maybe the whole universe. | handful stars universe | Catherine Anderson | |
| d8b94b7 | I was a kid once. When you meet my dad, ask him about the time my brother and I decided we wanted a yellow lab instead of a black one and spray-painted the dog. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| e43454b | MY MOTHER PRAYED on her knees at midday, at night, and first thing in the morning. Every day opened up to her to have God's will done in it. Every night she totted up what she'd done and said and thought, to see how it squared with Him. That kind of life is dreary, people think, but they're missing the point. For one thing, such a life can never be boring. And nothing can happen to you that you can't make use of. Even if you're wracked by t.. | Alice Munro | ||
| 76cdfc1 | Children Katy's age had no problem with monotony. In fact they embraced it, diving into it and wrapping the familiar words round their tongues as if they were a candy that could last forever. | Alice Munro | ||
| dd30bf6 | I was young, there seemed to be never a childbirth, or a burst appendix, or any other drastic physical event that did not occur simultaneously with a snowstorm. | Alice Munro | ||
| 3cb2ee8 | Greta moved on. She kept smiling. Nobody looked at her with any recognition or pleasure and why should they? People's eyes slid round her and then they went on with their conversations. They laughed. Everybody but Greta was equipped with friends, jokes, half-secrets, everybody appeared to have found somebody to welcome them. | Alice Munro | ||
| b4ce83a | The outside air had altered her mood, from an unsettled elation to something within reach of embarrassment, even shame. | Alice Munro | ||
| 30c73af | She hoped he wouldn't ask what she was doing at the party. If she had to say she was a poet, her present situation, her overindulgence, would be taken as drearily typical. | Alice Munro |