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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 |