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| 8eebaf2 | The mere fact that you picked up a book about prayer tells me you're probably a Christian. You believe Jesus is the Son of God; and somewhere along the line, you asked Jesus to come into your heart, meaning you have a relationship with Him. Maybe you grew up in church, following the Lord from an early age. Maybe you were one of thousands at a Billy Graham crusade who went forward when the invitation was given, making a commitment to follow .. | Diane Moody | ||
| f7d654d | Not long ago we heard about a group of students visiting the Eighth Air Force Museum in Savannah, Georgia. The docent leading their tour, a P-47 veteran from WWII, was asked, "Did you serve in World War eleven?" Sadly, the person asking the question was the teacher. God help us." -- | Diane Moody | ||
| b78574a | John Bunyan once said, "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." | Diane Moody | ||
| 0af95fe | We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. --OSWALD CHAMBERS1 | Diane Moody | ||
| 960f2cd | Look at what Colossians 1:16-17 has to say on this attribute of God's character. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. What is it you worry about most? What are the things that sometimes grip your soul and render you all but useless b.. | Diane Moody | ||
| 777c77d | You make the call: Abide with Jesus and get to know Him--or go your own way without Him and get toasted. Which will it be? The Lord also gives us a beautiful promise in the next couple of verses of that passage. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved.. | Diane Moody | ||
| 8243bb6 | All seems Infected that th' Infected spy,As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye. | An Essay on Criticism | ||
| 0a689ba | We completely blow it, ignoring the fact that the vineyard will only bear fruit if we take care of the vine. "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you . . . " The only way we will ever get to know God is by reading His Word. It's all there. He's written it all out for us. Everything we ever need to know about the God of the universe--the God who made you and me, the God who is able to provide every answer to every question we will ever.. | Diane Moody | ||
| b9f3b90 | Through the course of my life, I've attended a lot of different churches. From time to time I would hear murmurings in some of those congregations, something along the lines of, "I'm just not being fed spiritually here." I can't tell you how many times I've heard those exact words, no matter where I attended church. Such a strange concept to me. Whenever I heard it, I was always a little tempted to tie a bib around the person's neck and twi.. | Diane Moody | ||
| baf8b04 | Kay Arthur put it this way: "If we do not know our God and His ways, our prayer lives will be impotent and ineffective."2" | Diane Moody | ||
| 415d48b | Now, when I read back through my journals of those rocky times, I wonder why my family didn't just put me in a strait- jacket and check me into someplace called Sunnydale or Happy Hills. Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away. What's especially peculiar to me as I think back on this time in my life is the fact that I never stopped to realize my depression and frustration might stem from a spiritual problem. I've told you before I've been a Chr.. | Diane Moody | ||
| 6f4a193 | We're all guilty of getting caught up in the world we live in and demoting God to the back of the bus. Or, like Briana's character in Chapter 6, we grant Jesus access into only certain parts of our lives, in no uncertain terms. | Diane Moody | ||
| e3f989f | Giddy? Moi? How did I go from near despair--threatening to walk away from my faith in God forever--to giddy? I realized there could be only one explanation: God. He made good on His promise to love me, warts and all, and He showed up to meet me where I was--bitter and exhausted and spiritually out of gas. I offered Him seven days, He offered me unconditional love for all eternity. And for the first time in my life, I realized it was okay to.. | Diane Moody | ||
| 5965eca | News flash: God wants you. He wants a relationship with you. That's why He made you. And I have to be honest with you here. If you don't have much interest in spending time with God, I have to wonder about your salvation. | Diane Moody | ||
| 0293f34 | The focus of that week was "learning how to listen to the voice of God" in what was dubbed "My Quiet Time with God." You have to admire the camp leaders' intent, but let's be honest. Most pre-adolescents are clueless about such deeply spiritual goals, let alone the discipline to follow through on a daily basis. Still, good little camperettes that we were, we trekked across the campground after our counselors told us to find our "special pla.. | Diane Moody | ||
| abe3f8b | John Bunyan once said, "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." If it's the desire of your heart to grow in your walk with your Lord and Savior, then you understand prayer must be a purposeful matter of the heart." | Diane Moody | ||
| 054f60d | The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship.1 | Diane Moody | ||
| 2b1432c | Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him" (Matthew 6:8). Then why should we ask? The point of prayer is not to get answers from God, but to have perfect and complete oneness with Him. If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify .. | Diane Moody | ||
| 26239c7 | In Blue Like Jazz author Donald Miller addresses this subject from a startling perspective. I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.1 | Diane Moody | ||
| f67f16d | Life without prayer is like watching TV on an ancient twelve-inch black-and-white TV set. The picture is snowy and distorted, and no matter how much aluminum foil you wrap around those rabbit ears, you can't see a thing. Life with a personal prayer relationship with God is like watching TV on a sixty-inch flat-screen in high definition, with surround-sound speakers and a picture so clear you think you're right there on the eighteenth hole i.. | Diane Moody | ||
| 559992b | The best we can do is thank God for the gift of each new day then live it to the fullest. | Diane Moody | ||
| 27820bf | Some people are happy to give feminists credit for things they fear--like abortion rights, contraception for teenagers, or gay liberation--but less willing to acknowledge that feminist activism brought about things they support, like better treatment for breast cancer or the opportunity for young girls to play soccer as well as lead cheers. As Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon observe, "Although the word 'feminist' has become a pejorative .. | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | ||
| 7fb12c7 | If well-behaved women seldom make history, it is not only because gender norms have constrained the range of female activity but because history hasn't been very good at capturing the lives of those whose contributions have been local and domestic. For centuries, women have sustained local communities, raising food, caring for the sick, and picking up the pieces after wars. | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | ||
| dd54af0 | Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care. | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | ||
| ca6b36e | Mary Vial Holyoke was the daughter of a Boston merchant and the wife of a Salem gentleman, Edward Augustus Holyoke, a casual versifier and serious physician who was a member of the town's economic and intellectual elite.3 The Holyokes enjoyed the barbecues, dances, teas, and "turtles" of the Essex County gentry, yet each of the four major housekeeping roles is clearly apparent in Mary's diary, as this selection of entries from the 1760s sho.. | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | ||
| 05c9529 | Well-behaved women seldom make history. --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 0ecc8a3 | Learn then what morals critics ought to show,For 'tis but half a judge's task, to know. | An Essay on Criticism | ||
| fb82647 | They seemed to confirm Simone de Beauvoir's observation about real life women, which I would also, eventually, uncover: that, by definition, we "are married, or have been, or plan to be, or suffer from not being." | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 75c9993 | metropolises like Cincinnati, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Denver boast single-dwelling households that comprise more than 40 percent of their total populations. According to Census data,1 Susana's Atlanta has the highest share of residents living alone, at 44 percent; Washington D.C. and its surrounding suburbs clock in at about the same. According to sociologist Eric Klinenberg's book, Going Solo, in Manhattan, the percentage of so.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| eab557e | To be clear, the vast increase in the number of single women is to be celebrated not because singleness is in and of itself a better or more desirable state than coupledom. The revolution is in the expansion of options, the lifting of the imperative that for centuries hustled nearly all (non-enslaved) women, regardless of their individual desires, ambitions, circumstances, or the quality of available matches, down a single highway toward ea.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 1e6cbd5 | the wholesale revision of what female life might entail is also, by many measures, the invention of independent female adulthood. The | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 9e26a1e | When people call single women selfish for the act of tending to themselves, it's important to remember that the very acknowledgment that women have selves that exist independently of others, and especially independent of husbands and children, is revolutionary. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 1e84f18 | One Reformation-era proverb, which would be cited in different forms by John Donne and William Shakespeare, proclaimed that women who died unmarried were doomed to "lead apes in hell." | Rebecca Traister | ||
| ae9c083 | Yes, in a bad economy, grown children live with their parents. However, that's not a new familial configuration; historically and across classes, adult children have very often lived with their parents. We just didn't consider them quite so adolescent when they were married and had children dwelling with them in the multigenerational unit. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 9938f87 | Among the largely unacknowledged truths of female life is that women's primary, foundational, formative relationships are as likely to be with each other as they are with the men we've been told since childhood are supposed to be the people who complete us. Female friendship has been the bedrock of women's lives for as long as there have been women. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 6fe4f5a | those assumptions are often undergirded by an unconscious conviction that, if a woman is not wed, it's not because she's made a set of active choices, but rather that she has not been selected--chosen, desired, valued enough. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| bcf20cc | If there are broad distinctions to be made between the nature of same-sex female pairs versus heterosexual ones, it's that the same-sex unions have not entailed one of their members being automatically accorded more power, status, or economic worth based entirely on gender. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 323d5a3 | In part, surely, it's because power is always more rigidly patrolled than powerlessness: When money and status are at stake, lines around who may access and transmit them (white men) and who is barred from them (women and people of color), remain firm. Marriage, historically, has been one of the best ways for men to assert, reproduce, and pass on their power, to retain their control. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 0bed4f4 | There is an assumption, put forth by everyone from greeting card companies to Bruce Springsteen, that nobody likes to be alone, least of all women. But many women, long valued in context of their relations to other people, find solitude--both the act of being alone and the attitude of being independent--a surprisingly sweet relief. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 31a06e3 | When Susan B. Anthony began earning a salary as an elementary school teacher, at twenty-six, she had already turned down two marriage proposals in her quest to remain unmarried. She purchased for herself a fox-fur muff, a white silk hat, and a purple wool dress and wrote home, wondering if her peers might not "feel rather sad because they are married and can not have nice clothes." | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 37d4c1a | America's first voters were not just white men, but white men who owned property; in England in 1869, unmarried women with property had been granted the right to vote in local elections. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 59ff922 | The Comstock Act of 1873, along with a series of state laws implemented soon after, made it illegal to distribute any materials deemed "obscene," including birth control and educational material about contraception. States were outlawing abortion, which until then had been legal under some circumstances; by 1880, the procedure was mostly prohibited, except to save the life of the woman." | Rebecca Traister | ||
| fd90ec4 | In the same period, scientists around the world were working to justify the continued subjugation of women and nonwhites by making medical claims as to their inferior capabilities. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 15cdeb8 | German scientist Carl Vogt wrote, in 1864, "The grown-up Negro partakes, as regards his intellectual faculties, of the nature of the child, the female, and the senile white." | Rebecca Traister |