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| 9761c8f | Helping a woman make biscuits should not make a fellow this happy. But when the woman was the fellow's wife, and she smiled at him as if he were the noblest hero of her acquaintance--well, it couldn't be helped. | husband inspirational love marriage relationship romance smiles wife | Karen Witemeyer | |
| f0dc4d8 | He hated the their first kiss was up for public consumption, but if she expected him to give her a polite buss on the cheek, she was fixin' to be disappointed. He wanted no doubt in anyone's mind, especially his new wife's, that this marriage was real. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| e3c8423 | Abigail's pulse hiccuped as Zach lowered his face towards hers, and when their lips touched--mercy, but her knees nearly buckled. He was kissing her. Honest-to-goodness kissing, As if he meant it. As if this marriage were something more than a business arrangement. As if he actually had feelings for her. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 0cc648f | How often had he wanted to believe that he was created for some higher purpose? | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 9e35c09 | We can't change the past," he said, stroking the side of her face. "All we can do is strive not to make the same mistakes in the future." | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| caf34e3 | Have you forgiven yourself?" The quiet question slipped between his ribs to stagger his breath. "Abby squeezed his hand. "That's the hardest part, I've found." A thickness crept up Zach's throat. "How do you manage it?" "Little by little. I take comfort in the scriptures that talk about how God removes our transgressions from us as far as the east is from the west, how He will remember our sins no more, how He urges us to cast our cares on .. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 23da2fc | I got ya, darlin'." "I'm not your darling." | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| b90d672 | Guilt leads us to confession and repentance, she told me, but after we take it to the cross, we're suppose to leave it there, not carry it around with us. Jesus's burden is light. Guilt is heavy. Satan is the one who wants to increase our burden, to weigh us down with shame and despair, to steal our joy and the strength of the Lord that goes with it. Believing his lies instead of God's truth makes us weak. Made me a hypocrite. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 19c4c32 | The best way to take our minds off our own troubles is to help someone else with theirs. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| a723b64 | A man did what was right even when the odds were stacked against him. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| c7eb6a1 | Theory of mind postulates that, even though these cannot be directly observed, we readily impute mental states to others (and also to ourselves, since the bedrock proposal is that we understand our own mental states well enough to generalize from them). And so we constantly infer someone else's intentions, thoughts, knowledge, lack of knowledge, doubts, desires, beliefs, guesses, promises, preferences, purposes, and many, many more things i.. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| d91989d | ROBERT DEVEREAUX, EARL OF ESSEX, was taken to the place of execution at Tower Green on February 25, 1601. Standing before the crowd in a scarlet waistcoat, Essex made his last speech--a rather long one--with eloquence and dignity, claiming his sins "more numerous than the hairs on his head." He was still speaking when the executioner struck his first blow. It took two more to sever Devereaux's head. Despite his undisputed treason, Essex was.. | Robin Maxwell | ||
| 2209393 | Am I worthy of Juliet, I wondered, worthy as my father was of my mother? | parental-love romeo-and-juliet | Robin Maxwell | |
| f45df0f | The deceiver will promise strength and peace and security, but the Bible says he will speak out against the Most High and will wear down the saints of the Most High. That's why I warn you to beware now of a new leader with great charisma trying to take over the world during this terrible time of chaos and confusion. This person is known in the Bible as Antichrist. He will make many promises, but he will not keep them. You must trust in the .. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 9c06b31 | For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, niv) | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 4858920 | A great missionary martyr of the twentieth century named Jim Elliot is credited with one of the most poignant summaries of commitment to Christ ever penned: "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep [this temporal life] to gain what he cannot lose [eternal life with Christ]." | Tim LaHaye | ||
| acbdb54 | John 14:6 Jesus tells us in His own words, "No one comes to the Father except through Me." | Tim LaHaye | ||
| b36aa74 | He said, 'The government of the people, by the people, and for the people, has one duty above all others: it must preserve the American Republic and the constitutional rule of law upon which it is founded. Because if those foundations be removed, how can our house be saved from ruination?' | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 108be6c | When people mistakenly believe a lie, we have a responsibility--even a commission (Matthew 28:18-20)--to gently and lovingly point them to God's truth. What is truth? It is that God alone is the one means of forgiveness of sin. He alone is the one way to eternal life. "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6)." | Tim LaHaye | ||
| fcfe4fd | For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 4cdbf50 | Dear God, I know I am a sinner. Forgive me and pardon me for waiting so long. I receive your love and salvation and ask you to live your life through me. I accept you as my Savior and resolve to live for you until you come again. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| c81ba30 | It is a well-known fact among prophecy scholars that there were more than one thousand prophecies contained within the Bible at the time that it was written, and over five hundred of these have been fulfilled. The remainder are end-time prophecies whose time has not yet come. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 9ddd9d6 | God's people need to study the prophetic Scriptures so they can both be prepared themselves and help others prepare for His coming. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 59ef91f | I need to get you out of here," Buck said. "And I have no idea how." "Have you prayed?" "Constantly." "The Lord will make a way somehow." "It seems impossible right now, sir." "Yahweh is the God of the impossible," Tsion said." | Tim F. LaHaye | ||
| 6e791f1 | credited with one of the most poignant summaries of commitment to Christ ever penned: "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep [this temporal life] to gain what he cannot lose [eternal life with Christ]." | Tim LaHaye | ||
| ad5766a | For generations people have called natural disasters "acts of God." This has been a misnomer. Eons ago, God the Father conceded control of Earth's weather to Satan himself, the prince and power of the air. God allowed destruction and death by natural phenomena, yes, because of the fall of man. And no doubt God at times intervened against such actions by the evil one because of the fervent prayers of his people." | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 456fc23 | This joy was a deep abiding peace, an assurance that God was sovereign. They didn't have to like what was happening. They merely had to trust that God knew what he was doing. | Tim LaHaye | ||
| 2e1cc16 | He believed he was in love with her, if he knew what love was. | love question | Tim LaHaye | |
| b950067 | Are you in here for an actual reason? CARTER Pretty much. I don't remember what it is, but I'm sure I had one when I started down the hall ... TOM Perfect. CARTER Oh, yeah, now I recall . Because I was bored in my office ... (Beat.) Plus, you have nicer windows. | Neil LaBute | ||
| f942bb9 | I thought maybe you were different, but you ended up being the same kind of lame guy that I perpetually date, and it just freaks me out a little. That maybe you're the only type out there. These baby boys who run around in nice clothes, but all they really wanna do is breast-feed for the rest of their days ... | Neil LaBute | ||
| 4cbc3df | Check it out," Gideon says. "I prayed to god to send a sign that I wasn't going to get kicked out of school, and a plane flew overhead. And then another one." Molly put her hands on her hips. "Behold the celestial event so incredible it happens every 34 seconds." Gid stares at her, uncomprehending. "It's called a flight path," She says. "Your a moron." | Sarah PMiller | ||
| 97362ee | So when I let my head fall back under Sarah's kiss, the frenzy I trembled at just wasn't there. Instead, comfort and joy and simplicity and order and answers to questions I'd always supposed unanswerable, such as, why was I born? why a woman? why here? why now? A wonderful glowing spacious peacefulness came to us. There was so much time. | lesbian-romance love | Isabel Miller | |
| 9e47164 | Why doesn't Sunday ever wait until tired? | Sarah Miller | ||
| 1827618 | she were going to let her vexation flare outward, she would have done better to put her foot down with Charles than singe the girls. Then at least it would have served some purpose. Nor could she simply swallow her ire and leave the child beneath her apron to pickle in such brine. She had charge over their moods, and she would not squander it. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 14c73f2 | If people would only do me justice that is all I ask, but it seems as if every word I have uttered has been distorted and such a false construction placed on it that I am bewildered. I can't understand it. --Lizzie Borden | Sarah Miller | ||
| f68be88 | Nor did she know which of them to reach for first. She had not arms enough to shelter them both at once. Laura was still so little, but Mary was plainly smothering in her own fear. It did not seem fair that each could have only half of her, nor that her heart should favor one side of her chest. Not since Laura was newly born had Caroline felt so keenly that she might not be mother enough for two. And soon there would be a third. The thought.. | Sarah Miller | ||
| b1c892b | you thank your heavenly father for giving you strength to stand up to his trials and figure there must be a plan behind it all, a reason for so much pain and you just...go on. | Neil LaBute | ||
| b3a8761 | Likewise, the other person has a right to know us accurately, to consider the relationship and make plans for the future based on facts, not fantasies or projections. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| 955d966 | Respect the fact that all you do and are now, has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| bb0d1fb | To listen with an open heart and ask questions to better help us understand the other person is a spiritual exercise, in the truest sense of the word. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| 97e37f3 | We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate "I's" into one worldview." | Harriet Lerner | ||
| eb53c8c | Our goal will be to have relationships with both men and women that do not operate at the expense of the self, and to have a self that does not operate at the expense of the other. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| a72de62 | We may believe that anxiety and fear don't concern us because we avoid experiencing them. We may keep the scope of our lives narrow and familiar, opting for sameness and safety. We may not even know that we are scared of success, failure, rejection, criticism, conflict, competition, intimacy, or adventure, because we rarely test the limits of our competence and creativity. We avoid anxiety by avoiding risk and change. Our challenge: To be w.. | brave fear guilt psychology self-improvement shame | Harriet Lerner | |
| 98ae524 | Having and authentic voice means that: - We can openly share competence as well as problems and vulnerability. - We can warm things up and calm them down. - We can listen and ask questions that allow us to truly know the other person and to gather information about anything that may affect us. - We can say what we think and feel, state differences, and allow the other person to do the same. - We can define our values, convictions, principle.. | clarity communication convictions differences relationship values vulnerable | Harriet Lerner Ph.D. |