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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dab140f | Mary and Thatcher had lived in enviable times, when biologists were discovering new species right and left, not watching them go extinct. | species | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| e61a680 | Willa believed in the power of worry to keep another human from flying out of orbit. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 53d77f1 | Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered. | clearly penny fate human destiny fountain events wish | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 30f3594 | In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you loook down on them from a great height. | great mountains greatness | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| f4c6c2d | Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience. | kids mother patience | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| b5e9cda | When I was in my thirties I had these little square hips left over from being pregnant and I just hated it. I kept thinking, 'All those years before, I had a perfect glamour-girl body, and I didn't spend one minute appreciating it because I thought my nose had a bump in it.' And now that I'm old, my shoulder hurts and I don't sleep good and my knuckles swell up, and I think, 'All those years in my thirties and forties I had a body where eve.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a74eb16 | Iano ordered her back to Ivins to finish her degree in biology. Willa wondered when he would notice Tig was immune to his directives. Tig informed her parents she refused to take out bank loans, with tuition exchange no longer an option, and anyway she'd already learned more than she wanted to know about a ravaged biosphere. The latter was no news to Willa, who'd seen how the girl always took the truth of human selfishness harder than any o.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bdf1a5e | A quality diet is not an elitist option for the do-it-yourselfer. Globally speaking, people consume more soft drinks and packaged foods as they grow more affluent; home-cooked meals of fresh ingredients are the mainstay of rural, less affluent people. This link between economic success and nutritional failure has become so widespread, it has a name: the nutrition transition. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b42e128 | You can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN. | Brad Thor | ||
| 053283c | And a realization for Skinner, she still has his scarf, inside her mountaineering jacket, red wool at her neck. Some meaning there related to the kiss, but in a code he cannot unscramble. A tether is what it feels like, his scarf around her neck, preventing either of them from falling off the mountain alone. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 46a8633 | That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's up around your ears and you're just trying to keep your fucking mouth shut. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 8e88aea | I size him up. A pasty jumble of limbs in latex-tight sharkskin slacks with three inches of white socks showing at the ankles above two-tone patent leather, a jacket matching the slacks stretched over narrow shoulders and an embroidered cowboy shirt with silver caps on the points of the collar, a bolo tie featuring a cockroach frozen in amber snug around his throat. | Charlie Huston | ||
| d19a9ef | The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life. | civilization culture mediocrity | charlie huston | |
| 1591faf | Ca oameni, nu facem decat sa ne prezentam. Compunem imaginea pe care vrem s-o vada ceilalti si speram ca ei au s-o citeasca asa cum am scris-o noi. Toata lumea face asta. | Charlie Huston | ||
| f8d3340 | Everything hurts. People are talking in the halls, but no one seems to be evacuating the building. This is the nature of New York City: alarms go off so often that no one wants to respond to them until things start burning down or blowing up in front of their eyes. | Charlie Huston | ||
| c3bba40 | In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 78a871b | Emily peered at him and frowned, then began to dance on the grass. "Okay, Daddy," Emily said. "When you're ready to dance with me, this is what you do. First, you put your right hand around my waist like this, then hold your other hand out like this. Then we sway back and forth to the music." Face animated, she gestured gracefully while talking, lost in the moment" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c446c05 | Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money, not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven. Randy Alcorn | Ruth Soukup | ||
| 0335c66 | What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 14dd9ee | In the Bible, Jesus says more than anyone else about Hell. He refers to it as a literal place and describes it in graphic terms. Jesus taught that in Hell the wicked suffer terribly, are fully conscious, retain their desires and memories and reasoning, long for relief, cannot be comforted, cannot leave their torment, and are bereft of hope. The Savior could not have painted a bleaker picture. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1b03d1a | Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness." --D. A. Carson" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2c29bc3 | Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c477420 | God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him "Savior" when we refuse to follow him as Lord." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c577ba1 | God the Father (who now pleads with mankind to accept the reconciliation that Christ's death secured for all) and God the Son (our appointed Judge, who wept over Jerusalem) will in a final judgment express wrath and administer justice against rebellious humans. God's holy righteousness will hereby be revealed; God will be doing the right thing, vindicating himself at last against all who have defied him. . . . (Read through Matt. 25; John 5.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e8b8ae6 | So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV) What does Scripture mean when it tells us to fix our eyes on what we can't even see? How do we begin to do that? Even though as Christians we affirm the reality of the spiritual realm, sometimes we succumb to naturalistic assumptions that what we see is real and what we don't see isn't. Many people conclude th.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ed4d997 | There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions. | money possessions materialism | Randy Alcorn | |
| 76230e3 | Looking back," Ruby said, "I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 885a914 | When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it's like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 75b1809 | Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't. | pornographers sex men temptation women purity | Randy Alcorn | |
| cce55c1 | But earth is not heaven." "And those who expect it to be," Dani said, "can never know Joy." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 947a36d | If all the Bibles in America were simultaneously dusted, the sun would be obscured for a week. It's not a magic talisman that works without being read. A Bible does us no harm as long as it remains closed. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e4c7e56 | When we offend everybody, we've declared truth without grace. When we offend nobody, we've watered down truth in the name of grace. John 1:14 tells us Jesus came full of grace AND truth. Let's not choose between them, but be characterized by both. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7ec2743 | What an encouragement to know that even if no one else knows our needs and is praying for us, Christ does and is. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 3c05e6e | The earth matters, our bodies matter, animals and trees matter, matter matters, because God created them and intends them to manifest his glory. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 0fff444 | Old Zhou Jin began singing a hymn Quan had heard and reluctantly sung many times since childhood: "One day I'll die for the Lord." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8cfeb22 | God is the ultimate salvage artist. He loves to restore things to their original condition--and make them even better. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 57f88bb | Even if materialism brought happiness in this life (which it certainly does not), it would leave us woefully unprepared for the next. Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. It's a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God, the Source of all life and the Giver of all good gifts. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| afc506f | The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7b65cc1 | So look out a window. Take a walk. Talk with your friend. Use your God-given skills to paint or draw or build a shed or write a book. But imagine it - all of it - in its original condition. The happy dog with the wagging tail, not the snarling beast, beaten and starved. The flowers unwilted, the grass undying, the blue sky without pollution. People smiling and joyful, not angry, depressed, and empty. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 83b64d8 | How Can We Know for Sure That We'll Go to Heaven? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| bbb61cd | An unholy world will never be won to Christ by an unholy church. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 22ec406 | Biblical religion . . . views the whole course of history as a movement from a garden to a city, and it fundamentally affirms that movement. . . . Redemption in Jesus Christ reaches just as far as the fall. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e278d37 | Christ's resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth's. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| f8b0db1 | What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." --A. W. Tozer" | Randy Alcorn |