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| aa3dce4 | From the Author Matthew 16:25 says, "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." This is a perfect picture of the life of Nate Saint; he gave up his life so God could reveal a greater glory in him and through him. I first heard the story of Operation Auca when I was eight years old, and ever since then I have been inspired by Nate's commitment to the cause of Christ. He was deter.. | Nancy Drummond | ||
| f2ebfbb | Being attractive should have nothing to do with being accepted. It is what is inside a person that matters, | Julie Garwood | ||
| c049ef5 | No," Adam answered." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 6a69149 | Yes, I do. I think I'm very observant. I observe that the rash on your left hand isn't going to get better if you continue to use the same ointment. You're allergic to it. I observe that the gentleman in the third row on the left has a bad case of conjunctivitis-pinkeye, in the layman's terms. And the woman in the second row has a bag of candies in her purse, and she's trying to figure out away to eat them without making noise. They're M&M'.. | doctor ellie-sullivan observant | Julie Garwood | |
| 006e4c2 | I'm never going to get these folds just so," she remarked. "We'll practice that, too," Alec promised. She didn't start to blush until Father Murdock asked what else they were practicing. "Perhaps I could lend my expertise," he suggested eagerly. "A private matter," Jamie blurted out. "We can't use your assistance, Father, but we both thank you for offering." Alec's devilish smile widened." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 8347e59 | One whisper, Judith, added to a thousand others will become a roar of discontent even | Julie Garwood | ||
| 9aca2f1 | Their renewed cheers startled her. Alec thought she might be a little intimidated. She looked overwhelmed by all the attention. "What did you say to them, Alec?" she whispered, knowing full well what he'd said. As soon as he answered her, she thought to tell him that he really should expound upon his introduction. She never got the chance to enlighten him, however. "I told them you were English," Alec lied. He threw his arm around her shoul.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 485d19b | Richards then pulled the pen and ink well close. | Julie Garwood | ||
| cfff82e | Everyone was staring at them, and for that reason she forced herself to smile and to act as though it was nothing at all to be dragged across the room by a man she'd only just met. When she heard one woman whisper in a loud voice that she and the Marquess made a striking couple, she lost her smile. Yes, she did feel like hitting Lyon, but it was certainly uncomplimentary of the woman to make such a remark. | lost-in-translation made-me-lol | Julie Garwood | |
| 9008ddb | But, the giant wasn't a god or a demon. He was just a man, very primitive and frightening, yet still just a man. Besides, anyone with a pinch of sense knew women were smarter than men. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 41ef0f4 | He's got places to go, people to see . . . , | Julie Garwood | ||
| 8256b4e | Her computer was still in the bag she was carrying, so it was safe. She rushed to her closet to check the cubby where she hid her backup drive. It was exactly where she'd left it. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 1565ce2 | The young fought sleep, she thought, but the old relished it, and at the moment, she felt absolutely ancient. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 7051365 | Do you honestly believe I would have instructed the man to pay attention to what I was saying if I'd known all the while that he is the King of Scotland? | Julie Garwood | ||
| a9879de | She was a refreshing diversion in perfection. | prince-charming | Julie Garwood | |
| 0a42502 | She drooled on his neck. The groom didn't find out her true age until the barrister began the reading of the conditions for their union. His bride was four years old. | Julie Garwood | ||
| cef42ce | When you're right, you're right." "That's it?" He was suddenly furious with her and didn't care that it showed. Damn it, she had told him she loved him, and after a one-minute argument, she caved. What the hell kind of love was that? "That's all you have to say?" "No, actually there is one more thing I'd like to mention." "Yeah? What's that?" "You're an idiot." | Julie Garwood | ||
| e9eb039 | but Mom told me that I was normal. Yes, normal," she insisted, pointing the celery at Kate. "You two are the weird ones. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but you're both kind of ... nerds." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 837536b | The best laid schemes o' mice and men often go astray. Robert Burns 1759 -1796 "Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove .. | Spencer Johnson | ||
| 5672b83 | Ozverinin kanunu sudur: Eger bir erkek yanlis duzeyde sahip oldugu seyden vazgecerse, bu ona dogru duzeyde iade edilir. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| a548754 | It was she who first introduced me to a book by Richard Morris Bucke called Cosmic Consciousness. While reading it I realized for the first time that other people, too, had contact with the Golden World. It gave me the first bit of a handhold on what had happened to me. Lessons were at Miss Rand's home in the late afternoon, and I often stayed for dinner. We would go on talking until 9 P.M., when her dog would courteously insist that it was.. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| ba8368c | The word suffer in its original sense means "to allow," such as in one of Shakespeare's dramas when a courtier says, "I suffer you to speak before the king." So to suffer creatively is simply to allow what is, to stop fighting it, and instead to affirm your life. Creative suffering is allowing what is and saying "yes!" Such experience is redemptive in that it leads to healing and self-knowledge. If you can honestly assess what is true in yo.. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| e6e2d3a | A man must consent to look to a foolish, innocent, adolescent part of himself for his cure. The inner fool is the only one who can touch his Fisher King wound. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| d6c4962 | All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 557d775 | Our story begins with the Grail castle, which is in serious trouble. The Fisher King, the king of the castle, has been wounded. His wounds are so severe that he cannot live, yet he is incapable of dying. He groans; he cries out; he suffers constantly. The whole land is in desolation, for a land mirrors the condition of its king, inwardly in a mythological dimension, as well as outwardly in the physical world. The cattle do not reproduce; th.. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 28a3205 | Heaven and skid row are separated only by an act of consciousness. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 35e8211 | Cold allowed precision, heat threw caution aside and plunged in rampantly. Cold was the process of deliberation and planning, heat the result of unbridled passion. Passion was fine, but only when controlled and channeled properly. | Steve Perry | ||
| ab83247 | Why do you feel the need to practice so much?' "And he said, 'Well, I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of it." -- | Steve Perry | ||
| 18a1f7f | Then I'd have used some other tool. Knife, stick, a chair, whatever. Fighting fair gets you killed unless the other guy also fights fair and you are better than him and lucky. First rule: Don't do it. | Steve Perry | ||
| 79a92b2 | There it is," he said. "You sure? Doesn't look big enough." "I get that a lot. Trust me, it'll look bigger in a minute." | Steve Perry | ||
| 4c68f55 | I'm the least among us when it comes to fighting, slower and older. But why I am still here is that I know that, and compensate for it. "Old and treacherous beats young and strong every time." | Steve Perry | ||
| 17d8f4c | I'm just guessing without a full autopsy, but I'd say that Rama here is considerably dead, and the cause probably an explosive carbine round to the head. | Steve Perry | ||
| e43fab6 | She said they don't spend much time and energy protecting stupid folks from themselves. The symbol for danger should be enough." "What if a passerby cannot read the sign?" "Tough shit. Improves the gene pool." | Steve Perry | ||
| dde5d67 | No hesitation, no qualms, move until you prevail or you cannot move anymore, whichever comes first. | Steve Perry | ||
| 03ced17 | Here Comes the Sun" - I like the version by Richie Havens "Be the Change" - MC Yogi "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" - Ray Charles "Internal Heights" - Trevor Hall "Bright Side of the Road" - Van Morrison "We Let it Be" - Rickie Byars Beckwith "Safe, Secure, Peaceful, Satisfied" - Bukeka Shoals "Get Together" - The Youngbloods "Born Free" - Kid Rock "Don't Stop" - Fleetwood Mac "Firework" - Katy Perry "Hope" - Shaggy "I Feel Fine" - The Beatl.. | Will Bowen | ||
| 35b6e0b | You're not an ape, use a tool!' Your bare hands are for when your knife breaks; your knife is for when your pistol runs out of ammo; your pistol is for when your carbine is dead. Carbine is for when you can't be somewhere else. | Steve Perry | ||
| d59288b | It goes to the inaccuracy of statistics. Statistics say a man with one foot on a hot stove and the other on a block of ice is, on average, comfortable." "This also makes no sense." | Steve Perry | ||
| 683df2e | If by dying for the cause you're going straight to Paradise to sit at your thundering god's right hand, death doesn't mean a whole lot." "Are people really that stupid?" "That's a rhetorical question, right?" | Steve Perry | ||
| 7ffbe48 | I have to recognize the boundaries and operate within them. I put down my gun, I don't solve anything, I just get unilaterally disarmed and become an easier target. I | Steve Perry | ||
| fa347a4 | It was a pity that most people didn't actually go to libraries anymore, not when they could sit in the comfort of their own quarters and access files electronically. Want to read the new hot interstellar caper novel, or the latest issue of holozine? Input the name, touch a control, and - it's in your datapad. . . . There were, of course, old-fashioned beings who would still actually trundle down to where the files were. On some worlds.. | books e-readers reading | Michael Reaves and Steve Perry | |
| 624840d | His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish. | enthusiasm humility | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 3666cb5 | Saral came one day with a idea for drawing the women to hear the Gospel. She would teach them to knit with some pink wool she had been given, 'and they will love me more and like to listen when I talk about Jesus.' Amy could not say yes to that. She explained that the Gospel needed no such frills. It is the power of God for salvation....There was no need for tricks which might open houses... | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 8847781 | Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| d09dd3b | If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed. | Elisabeth Elliot |