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bba43c7 Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges. Amit Ray
6770fc7 Pain and pleasure, yes, of course, but there are others, too. Cruelty, humiliation, dominance ... and compassion and kindness. It took all of these, to make truly exquisite music. That was the part so few understood. Affection. Jacqueline Carey
08a81b9 What becomes of this emotion we call envy when it is uncoupled from fear and malice? Does it remain a sin? Or is it simply an honest assessment of the human condition? Jacqueline Carey
2b246ad It occurred to me, trying not to hobble in my too-tight slippers, that attire was another form of concealment. Jacqueline Carey
98b7cbe where battle prevails, women must grieve. Jacqueline Carey
83e4b95 Vengeance and love didn't make for good bedfellows. Jacqueline Carey
937e881 Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean. lies truth Jacqueline Carey
dd35d5d a strange mood settled over the City: proud, defiant, hostile, despairing. All of these things at once. War was coming. Jacqueline Carey
9e7d76b Poets in their chambers began to scribble notes. Jacqueline Carey
d9863d3 the gods answer our prayers sideways at best. Jacqueline Carey
0575b15 I understood pain. It is the price of living, and of loving well, Jacqueline Carey
56cec48 Merely surviving without doing harm seemed chore enough. Jacqueline Carey
4f1ca7e Tis a lonely business, being miserable when happiness abounds. I did my best to hide it, although the people who knew me well, knew. Jacqueline Carey
74a6815 For good or for ill, some people seem to love more fiercely, want more powerfully, burn more brightly. Jacqueline Carey
3d6c181 Nothing like truth to leaven a good lie. Jacqueline Carey
8f4e45c One never thinks, until one is badly injured, about the myriad intricate ways in which the parts of one's body are connected. Jacqueline Carey
1dba48d We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. Jacqueline Carey
411709f We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Jacqueline Carey
9ae17d6 I accepted the commission because the couturieres of Atelier Favrielle relish a challenge more than we fear ought else. Jacqueline Carey
fe68121 Ambition untempered by caution is like a river in flood. It leaps from its natural channels to forge the shortest course, and it sweeps away all in its path. Do not get swept away, Jacqueline Carey
1c93042 Talk is healing. It's the unexamined wound that festers. Jacqueline Carey
29c7fd1 It's not wise to trust a poet with one's secrets, but it's not wise to cross them, either, Jacqueline Carey
c6c573e Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?" "I don't know, my lady," I murmured. "I suppose it depends on who is telling the tale." Jacqueline Carey
7ba5857 It was a truth of the heart and it owed nothing to reason. Jacqueline Carey
f44e402 It all seemed very unfair. I'd never asked for a destiny Jacqueline Carey
3480004 In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!" --RON CARLSON" Norman L. Geisler
c41f0d0 Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true (Ps. 119:142). Yet Norman L. Geisler
e983b51 when truth goes, the authority of the gospel is undermined, because the gospel tells us all about the Truth. Norman L. Geisler
e6720f4 Jesus provided reasons to believe through many different means, the most dramatic of which were miracles done in public as authentication Francis J. Beckwith
7da55f2 this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself. (Pensees, #148) Norman L. Geisler
dd8286b Einstein said, "God doesn't play dice with the universe." 22 He was right. As Phillip Gold said, "God plays Scrabble!" Norman L. Geisler
7b589b1 The incredible specified complexity of life becomes obvious when one considers the message found in the DNA of a one-celled amoeba (a creature so small, several hundred could be lined up in an inch). Staunch Darwinist Richard Dawkins, professor of zoology at Oxford University, admits that the message found in just the cell nucleus of a tiny amoeba is more than all thirty volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica combined, and the entire amoeba.. Norman L. Geisler
f76aa41 Geisler and Van Gordon have done both Christians and non-Christians a great service by writing Somewhere under the Rainbow: A Christian Look at Same-sex "Marriage." They furnish concise yet comprehensive answers to the objections and alternate "interpretations" of God's Word employed by same-sex apologists to justify their lifestyle. Importantly, they also compose a compelling narrative of how Jesus is the answer to same-sex attraction and .. Norman L. Geisler
8ebacfc C. S. Lewis put it, "If we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain." Norman L. Geisler
8f98d68 Liberal secularists insist that tolerance is the highest virtue. But they don't tell you what they mean by "tolerance." To them, tolerance doesn't simply involve treating those with different ideas respectfully and civilly. It means affirming their ideas as valid, which Christians can't do without renouncing their own beliefs. If, for example, you subscribe to the biblical prohibition on homosexual behavior as sinful, you cannot at the same.. Norman L. Geisler
70823c1 New Testament Words for Redemption Greek Words English Meanings References agorazo (verb) to purchase or buy in the marketplace 1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23; 2 Peter 2:1; Rev. 5:9; 14:3-4, etc. exagorazo (verb) to purchase from or buy from the marketplace Gal. 3:13; 4:5; Eph. 5:16; Col. 4:5 lytron (noun) a means of release, means of redeeming Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45 lytroomai (verb) to ransom for release by paying the ransom price Luke 24:21; Titus 2:.. Norman L. Geisler
9d0df0d Many of the central ideas of the major religions cannot be reconciled, which gives the lie to the trendy tenet of pluralism that all religions at their core are the same. Norman L. Geisler
be08991 natural laws are not immutable because they are descriptions of what happens, not prescriptions of what must happen. Norman L. Geisler
85f7c74 Romans 2:14-15 (see Ephesians 2:3)--How can those who are by nature sinners keep God's laws of nature? Norman L. Geisler
1f072ca My image is the creation of the media. Amit Shah
95791a7 He never gave us a script and we never asked - we were safe in his hands. Amitabh Bachchan
22811ac We should certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in God's sight and entitled to equal protection of the laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment. But there is no moral imperative that we adopt the notion that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral imperative that we do not. Norman L. Geisler
bdd5c13 we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth. But Norman L. Geisler
0b972c5 When one attends a university, he is supposed to be guided in the quest to find unity in diversity--namely, how all the diverse fields of knowledge (the arts, philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics, etc.) fit together to provide a unified picture of life. A tall task indeed, but one that the modern university has not only abandoned but reversed. Instead of universities, we now have pluraversities, institutions that deem every viewpo.. Norman L. Geisler