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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 467fdf7 | But how would you have a wedding arranged?' 'Oh, I have never thought much about it; only I should like it to be a very fine summer morning; and I should like to walk to church through the shade of trees; | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 4233475 | It is not right to anticipate evil, and to be always looking forward with an apprehensive spirit; but I think grief is a two-edged sword, it cuts both ways; the memory of one loss is the anticipation of another. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 0c5ecb0 | but none--not the most skilful physician--can get at more than the outside of these things: the heart knows its own bitterness, and the frame its own poverty, and the mind its own struggles. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| b7bc6b5 | A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1fc1f47 | But ne'er mind. We're but where we was; and I'll break stones on th' road afore I let these little uns clem. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| a5a6392 | There's iron, they say, in all our blood, And a grain or two perhaps is good; But his, he makes me harshly feel, Has got a little too much of steel.' ANON. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| e24481c | The vices of the poor sometimes astound us HERE; but when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree. Of this I am certain. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 580e738 | Aberforth's getting a bit annoyed," said Fred, raising his hand in answer to several cries of greeting. "He wants a kip, and his bar's turned into a railway station." Harry's mouth fell open. Right behind Lee Jordan came Harry's old girlfriend, Cho Chang. She smiled at him. "I got the message," she said, holding up her own fake Galleon, and she walked over to sit beside Michael Corner. "So what's the plan, Harry?" said George. "There isn't .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 08711bf | Whoa!" whispered Seamus, and he, Dean, and Neville put their heads a little closer to hear what Apparition felt like." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| abf25fa | Gospel is the announcement of who God insists you are. You're a child of God, not because of how great you are but because God has all kinds of kids and you're one of them. | Rob Bell | ||
| 88474bd | The scorecard is rooted in resentment, and the space between you is highly responsive to resentment. The scorecard is lethal because its rooted in fear - fear that we're on our own, that we're not going to be taken care of, that we're not going to get what we need...In order to get rid of scorecard, you have to choose to act in love instead of fear. To get rid of your scorecard, someone has to move toward the other first. | Rob Bell | ||
| ef7e237 | I am for you. I've got your back. I am committed to your best. Help me understand things from your perspective. What can we do together to change things? | Rob Bell | ||
| c366ff0 | for a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere | Rob Bell | ||
| f4593d4 | Patience had once counseled me that the best way to stop pitying myself was to do something for someone else. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 063ccad | What the gospel does is confront our version of our story with God's version of our story. It is a brutally honest, exuberantly liberating story, and it is good news. It begins with the sure and certain truth that we are loved. That in spite of whatever has gone horribly wrong deep in our hearts and has spread to every corner of the world, in spite of our sins, failures, rebellion, and hard hearts, in spite of what's been done to us or what.. | Rob Bell | ||
| cffa2dd | Wherever you find truth, wherever you discover something new, affirm it, embrace it, enjoy it. | Rob Bell | ||
| af1fc1c | When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you. | Rob Bell | ||
| bb3eff2 | Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master. | Rob Bell | ||
| cdaf72a | It's one thing to be in love; it's another to act because of love. Love is a noun--a feeling you have--and it's also a verb, something you do. | Rob Bell | ||
| 6837989 | seeing where | Rob Bell | ||
| e08394b | When you create space for another to thrive, it always unleashes new energies. | Rob Bell | ||
| 8a695e1 | God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness. | Rob Bell | ||
| 3180c22 | Holism is when two plus two equals infinity. | Rob Bell | ||
| 8927225 | It is as if the smallest amount of light is infinitely more powerful than massive amounts of dark. | Rob Bell | ||
| 9d1ac2d | when I'm talking about God, I'm talking about a reality known, felt, and experienced, but one that cannot be located in any specific physical space in any tangible way. | Rob Bell | ||
| 3fcae44 | cap to scratch his bald head. 'Well, you won't miss the veg because I'll be bringing you some every week now. I've always got plenty left over and I'd rather give it to you than see it waste.' He gave a rumbling laugh. 'I caught that young Tommy Barton digging potatoes from Percy's plot this mornin'. Give 'im a cuff round 'is ear but I let him take what he'd dug. Poor little bugger's only tryin' to keep his ma from starvin'; ain't 'is fault.. | Rosie Clarke | ||
| f231fef | When people charge in with great insistence that this is God's word all the while neglecting the very real humanity of these books, they can inadvertently rob these writings of their sacred power. All because of starting in the wrong place. You start with the human. You ask those questions, you enter there, you direct your energies to understanding why these people wrote these books. Because whatever divine you find in it, you find the divi.. | Rob Bell | ||
| d820aa5 | than | Rob Bell | ||
| 28c9716 | Arguing about how it literally happened can be an easy way to avoid facing the people in your life you need to forgive. For the people who first heard this story, the story would have had a provocative, unsettling effect. The Assyrians? The Assyrians were like a huge, gaping, open wound for the Israelites. Bless the Assyrians? The story is extremely subversive because it insists that your enemy may be more open to grace and love than you ar.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 96b75b0 | The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17" | Rob Bell | ||
| dbecf1d | But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up. | Rob Bell | ||
| b5cd617 | But when I'm talking about God, I'm talking about the divine being who can't be located tangibly with the kind of evidence that the rationalism of reductionism demands in the same way that you cannot be located in your eyelashes or spine or shoulder. | Rob Bell | ||
| 685a46c | Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y. Success can never get enough. It makes your head spin, because you get that thing you were desperately working for, for all those years, and when you get it, you realize that it isn't what you thought it was. | happiness success | Rob Bell | |
| 97a8032 | The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was God"s desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other." | god inspirational serving-god serving-others worship | Rob Bell | |
| 854329b | This is a book about seeing, about becoming more and more alive and aware, orienting ourselves around the God who I believe is the ground of our being, the electricity that lights up the whole house, the transcendent presence in our tastes, sights, and sensations of the depth and dimension and fullness of life, from joy to agony to everything else. | Rob Bell | ||
| ea13bd0 | The priest's work, the priest's service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God's desire at Sinai - that everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other. | humanity inspirational jesus life serving-god serving-others | Rob Bell | |
| 53b8100 | So when we talk about God we're using language, language that employs a vast array of words and phrases and forms to describe a reality that is fundamentally beyond words and phrases and forms. | Rob Bell | ||
| ed5cef2 | An image of God doesn't contain God, in the same way a word about God or a doctrine or a dogma about God isn't God; it only points to God. | Rob Bell | ||
| 30c0f20 | If anybody didn't have a Messiah complex, it was Jesus. | Rob Bell | ||
| 9586437 | It'd been said that he could rob a man blind and have that same man thank him for his good work. | Lisa Shearin | ||
| ef49520 | Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it. | Rob Bell | ||
| 086904c | You start with your 1 and then you suspend judgment on what you're doing, because you don't know what you have when you start. When you are constantly judging what you're doing, you aren't here. You aren't present. You are standing outside of your life, looking in, observing. The time for judgement will come at some point, but in the moment, you have only the 1. And then the 2. And then the 3... | Rob Bell | ||
| 4ed3f21 | You cannot control how people are going to respond to you and your work in the world. Surrendering the outcomes does not mean that we don't care or we aren't emotionally involved or we are indifferent to the results. We want to connect with people and move them and inspire them - and we want more kids to learn to read. Surrendering the outcomes is making peace with our lack of control over how people respond to us and our work. Surrendering.. | Rob Bell | ||
| ef8c6c0 | It is possible for religious people who see themselves as God's people to resist the forward-calling of God to such a degree that the larger culture around them is actually ahead of them in a particular area, such as the protection of human dignity or the integration of the mind and body or the treatment of women or inclusion of the forgotten and marginalized or compassion or intellectual honesty or care for the environment. Churches and re.. | Rob Bell |