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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b2fa844 | I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to "curtail the friendship"." | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 005613a | A woman ought to be honest with a man who shows interest in her. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 3169b91 | Trust His Promises This is my comfort in my affliction: Your promise has given me life. Psalm 119:50 HCSB God's promises are found in a book like no other: the Holy Bible. It is a roadmap for life here on earth and for life eternal. As Christians, we are called upon to trust its promises, to follow its commandments, and to share its Good News. As believers, we must study the Bible daily and meditate upon its meaning for our lives. Otherwise.. | Freeman Smith | ||
| adfc713 | If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that? | discipline holiness pride | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 215fb43 | To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and 'be safe'?" That's the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won't fix what's really going on in our souls." | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 13b379e | A few clear pronouncements on one side and a few honest questions on the other had, in a matter of minutes, shown me that life was not going to be as simple, ever again, as I had thought. | questions | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 3bc9e12 | All the Scriptural metaphors about the death of the seed that falls into the ground, about losing one's life, about becoming the least in the kingdom, about the world's passing away--all these go on to something unspeakably better and more glorious. Loss and death are only the preludes to gain and life. It was a temptation to foreshorten the promises, to look for some prompt fulfillment of the loss-gain principle.... | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 8025ffb | If he had loved her he would have pursued her. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 6d4a10e | God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to. | god worship | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 3054265 | And I've come to see that it's through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we'll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He's in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 2f7facd | There is, in fact, no redemptive work done anywhere without suffering. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 5e05812 | It's only in the cross that we can begin to harmonize this seeming contradiction between suffering and love. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 06f1e75 | Thanksgiving is a spiritual exercise, necessary to the building of a healthy soul. It takes us out of the stuffiness of ourselves into the fresh breeze and sunlight of the will of God. | gratitude-quotes inspirational thanksgiving thanksgiving-quotes | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| e5aa4bc | Cwe give up all for the love of God? When the surrender of ourselves seems too much to ask, it is first of all because our thoughts about God Himself are paltry. We have not really seen Him, we have hardly tested Him at all and learned how good He is. In our blindness we approach Him with suspicious reserve. We ask how much of our fun He intends to spoil, how much He will demand from us, how high is the price we must pay before He is placat.. | surrender-to-god | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| e4e345a | Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. | Bill Bryson | ||
| beec380 | Charles Lindbergh's achievement in finding his way alone from Long Island to an airfield outside Paris deserves a moment's consideration. Maintaining your bearings by means of dead reckoning means taking close note of compass headings, speed of travel, time elapsed since the last calculation, and any deviations from the prescribed route induced by drifting. Some measure of the difficulty is shown by the fact that the Byrd expedition the fol.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 54f4cc9 | Whatever the actual total, 99.99 per cent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us. | Bill Bryson | ||
| c910e71 | In Russia there are no native words for efficiency, challenge, engagement ring, have fun, or take care | Bill Bryson | ||
| 008b39e | Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty. | Bill Bryson | ||
| d784338 | Instead, we were given the period of unusual tranquillity known as the Holocene, the time in which we live now. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 8c0c499 | We are the only creature that can harm at a distance. | Bill Bryson | ||
| c5c4753 | Baron Rothschild, whose obsessive quest for rare species led to the annihilation of several. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 0f4e8c8 | He said Catholics probably had an advantage, you could hedge your bets right until you were dying. | Alice Munro | ||
| 005215d | Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law." | Bill Bryson | ||
| da915ae | wanted to be puzzled and charmed, to experience the endless, beguiling variety of a continent where you can board a train and an hour later be somewhere where the inhabitants speak a different language, eat different foods, work different hours, live lives that are at once so different and yet so oddly similar. I wanted to be a tourist. But | Bill Bryson | ||
| 7fa8fb0 | That's the thing about Australia, you see. It teems with interesting stuff, but at the same time it's so vast and empty and forbidding that it generally takes a remarkable stroke of luck to find it. Unfortunately, | Bill Bryson | ||
| 80d7d68 | She's trying to coax me away from him, speaking in a gentle voice, the way you'd speak to a child or to a frightened animal, not condescending, just gently, respectfully coaxing me to rise and come away and leave my brother here, and I know what this coaxing means, somewhere inside I do in the small, small place where I'm still sane, the small, small place where I'm not casting ancient spells of prophylaxis and reversal according to the ur-.. | David Payne | ||
| 2600f66 | I remember once reading that the tenth Duke of Marlborough, on a visit to one of his daughter's homes, announced in consternation from the top of the stairs that his toothbrush wasn't foaming properly. It turned out that his valet had always put toothpaste on his brush for him, and as a consequence the duke was unaware that dental implements didn't foam up spontaneously. I rest my case. | Bill Bryson | ||
| cc83150 | Cook was a brilliant navigator and a conscientious observer, but he made one critical mistake on his first voyage: he took Australia's wet season for its dry one, and concluded that the country was more hospitable than it was. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 74c143a | You are wery obligin', sir,' replied Sam. 'Now, don't allow yourself to be fatigued beyond your powers; there's a amiable bein'. Consider what you owe to society, and don't let yourself be injured by too much work. For the sake o' your feller-creeturs, keep yourself as quiet as you can; only think what a loss you would be!' With these pathetic words, Sam Weller departed. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 4ec13ab | They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy | Alice Munro | ||
| d5388dc | the thirteenth-century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi, reject orthodoxy of any kind: I hold to no religion or creed, am neither Eastern nor Western, Muslim or infidel, Zoroastrian, Christian, Jew or Gentile. I come from neither land nor sea, am not related to those above or below, was not born nearby or far away, do not live either in Paradise or on this Earth, claim descent not from Adam and Eve or the Angels above. I transcend body and soul. My h.. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| a750a31 | The day's most vivid exchanges were about a delicate but serious matter: the extreme foreignness of native Hawaiians. Both sides used racial arguments. Annexationists said the islanders' evident savagery made it urgent for a civilizing force to take their country and uplift them. Opponents countered that it would be madness to bring such savages into union with the United States, where they could corrupt white people. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 54c05df | The main concern in Chile is that [Allende] can consolidate himself, and the picture projected to the world will be his success. . . . If we let the potential leaders in South America think they can move like Chile and have it both ways, we will be in trouble. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 238264a | The revolution of 1893 and the annexation that followed undermined a culture and ended the life of a nation. Compared to what such operations have brought to other countries, though, this one ended well. | hawaiian-islands overthrow-of-hawaii | Stephen Kinzer | |
| da61db7 | Weyler, the brute, the devastator of haciendas, and the outrager of women . . . is pitiless, cold, an exterminator of men," ran one such account. "There is nothing to prevent his carnal, animal brain from running riot with itself in inventing tortures and infamies of bloody debauchery." | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| f9889e8 | The riots that shook Abadan led many Iranians to rally to the workers' cause, partly out of instinctive sympathy but also because of the grossly unequal terms under which the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company operated. In 1947, for example, the company reported an after-tax profit of PS40 million-the equivalent of $112 million dollars-and gave Iran just PS7 million. To make matters worse, it never complied with its commitment under the 1933 agreeme.. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| dd9e9f0 | My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." In" | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| c7cde73 | In a ravenous fifty-five-day spasm during the summer of 1898, the United States asserted control over five far-flung lands with a total of 11 million inhabitants: Guam, Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Never in history has a nation leaped so suddenly to overseas empire. At | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 26cf65d | There are those who believe that if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon .. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 1357d6d | She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest had long ago done its work. Trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home; multitudes who had applauded the crushing of other people's liberties, lived to suffer for their mistake in their own persons. The government was irrevocably in the hands of the prodigiously rich and their hangers-on, the suffrage was become a mere machine,.. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 8543fca | There was no response. Soon afterward, a skiff flying the Spanish flag approached the Charleston. Two Spanish officers came aboard and apologized for not having returned the American "salute" because they had no gunpowder left in their arsenal. It turned out that they had not been resupplied for months and did not know the United States and Spain were at war. The next morning an American lieutenant went ashore. At 10:15 he handed the Spanis.. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| a3fd0d1 | No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 5d2d913 | It is cheering to find a newspaper of the great influence and circulation of the Journal that tells the facts as they exist, and ignores the suggestions of various kinds that emanate from sources that cannot be described as patriotic or loyal to the flag. | Stephen Kinzer |