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| a5b57be | Satan takes our circumstances and builds strongholds in our lives--how he wages war on the battlefield of the mind. But, thank God, we have weapons to tear down the strongholds. God doesn't abandon us and leave us helpless. First Corinthians 10:13 promises us that God will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear, but with every temptation He will also provide the way out, the escape. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| da8ba94 | Pray and ask God to show you a specific area where you need to let go of selfishness. Once He shows you, don't get discouraged or be afraid--trust God to change you! | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 57dc089 | Mary can't control her actions because she doesn't control her thoughts. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 34cc836 | Many people would like a miracle, but like the man in our story, they are not willing to give up their blame and self-pity. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 2d8b1e3 | If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| e5b0e72 | JANUARY 24 He Will Reward You So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord. ACTS 3:19 Success principles alone will not work in your life if you don't spend time with God, allowing His Holy Spirit to be your Counselor and to.. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 653fafe | It is tormenting to live life with a burden of guilt. Jesus bore our sins and the guilt associated with them, and in reality, once we have received forgiveness for any sin we have committed, there is no longer any guilt. When sin goes, guilt goes with it. Jesus not only forgives sin, He removes it completely. He remembers it no more, and to Him, it is as if it never happened. When we feel guilt after we have confessed and repented of a sin,.. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 05d4dc4 | If you want to keep a problem you have, then just keep talking about it. But if you want to get rid of it, then talk about the answer as if you expect it to manifest at any moment. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 2b4e83a | As we leave this chapter, choose a habit you want to form and begin putting these principles into practice. Be patient with yourself. It takes time to create habits, and you may not succeed every day. If you realize you have failed, don't waste time being discouraged; just pick up where you left off and begin again. Be kind to yourself, because beating yourself up for every mistake is another bad habit that needs to be broken. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 6166f8c | What we think leads to the words that come out of our mouths. What we think and speak may be one of our most important habits because it determines the other habits in our lives. In my opinion, thoughts and words are the starting point for forming all good habits and breaking all bad habits. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 9c225ca | Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5b Have you ever noticed that being upset or downtrodden about problems never changes them? Sometimes we don't take time to look at the fruit of our actions, but if we did, surely we would see that worry is useless. We can learn to enjoy the journey of life, even when it takes us in a different direction than we had planned. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 7a34209 | Needless to say that the ideas of this book fall squarely into the Tragic category: We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| c07c52b | There is nothing that makes the unbearable bearable. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 5728395 | You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 9dc93d0 | and a bunch of the other guys on the football team would be teaching kids how to bench-press or tackle or rape or whatever it was that football players knew how to do well. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| b390da3 | If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting. | Grace Metalious | ||
| 685ca67 | Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence. | Grace Metalious | ||
| 4ee4f36 | Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for. | Grace Metalious | ||
| cea2f87 | A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion--in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to. To sum him up, Nero believed in erudition, aesthetics, and risk taking--little else. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| aaf45c5 | O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 20e8291 | At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 6f6576b | The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy) | baptist bill-scott book buttercup buttercup-dairy buttercup-farm-park christian christian-giving clermiston compassion corstorphine leith muriel-spark philanthropist philanthropy scottish social-history | Muriel Spark | |
| 9d051d2 | Back in 1944 when people were normal and there was a world war on,' says Paul to his son, 'it was a serious thing to be a spy. | spy | Muriel Spark | |
| adbe9a0 | However, as soon as Mrs. Hogg stepped into her room she disappeared, she simply disappeared. She had no private life whatsoever. God knows where she went in her privacy. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 0232550 | Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology. | old-age | Muriel Spark | |
| 518d0fe | You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested... | humorous humour scholarly scholars scholarship | Muriel Spark | |
| f1c5882 | Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' said Sandy. 'Yes,' said Miss Brodie, 'you're right. Rose has got a future by virtue of her instinct.' ... 'I ought to know because my prime has brought me instinct and insight, both. | instinct | Muriel Spark | |
| be54e91 | In fact, it was the religion of Calvin of which Sandy felt deprived, or rather a specified recognition of it. She desired this birthright; something definite to reject. It pervaded the place in proportion as it was unacknowledged. In some ways the most real and rooted people whom Sandy knew were Miss Gaunt and the Kerr sisters who made no evasions about their believe that Gold had planned for practically everybody before they were born an n.. | god religion | Muriel Spark | |
| 7e7d218 | Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight. | Muriel Spark | ||
| e1ca9f4 | But now they were all fifteen, there was a lot they did not tell each other. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 729d090 | Culture cannot compensate for lack of hard knowledge. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 91a20b7 | I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely. | Muriel Spark | ||
| a10ba2f | Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it. | drugs | Muriel Spark | |
| 15957f7 | The more religious people are, the more perplexing I find them. | Muriel Spark | ||
| c925a75 | 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment of self-confidence.' - | composure deportment elegance equanimity poise self-confidence | Muriel Spark | |
| 2ba2ac1 | You girls," said Miss Brodie, "must learn to cultivate an expression of composure. It is one of the best assets of a woman, an expression of composure, come foul, come fair. Regard the Mona Lisa over yonder!" | Muriel Spark | ||
| 81f6883 | Verba volent, words fly. Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times. This is the product of modernism and division of tasks. Recall that I said that America's | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 008b68f | We need tricks to get us there but before that we need to accept the fact that we are mere animals in need of lower forms of tricks, not lectures. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 0c7d00e | the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1be3811 | don't say you'se ole. You'se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo' ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo' young girl days to spend wid me. | old-age young-at-heart | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 3a5fb79 | She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love. Most humans didn't love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time. | love | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 8479927 | Times and scenes like that put Janie to thinking about the inside state of her marriage. Time came when she fought back with her tongue as best she could, but it didn't do her any good. It just made Joe do more. He wanted her submission and he'd keep on fighting until he felt he had it. So gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned to hush. The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there.. | ending-relationships growing-apart marriage | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| a041b9e | If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. Ah | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 9f25e5f | Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding space,' to quote the late, great Zora Neale Hurston. It | Anne Lamott |