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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 14fed89 | The desire of Joseph's heart was to see his father and to get all of his family to move to Egypt and to live near him so he could provide for them without reservation and without limitation. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| bc20d7f | El Espiritu Santo viene para darnos una forma de vida completamente diferente. una vida que se desarrolla en un plano diferente. Se vive por encima de la culpa y la verguenza, se vive por encima de los temores de la vida. Nos capacita para vivir como vencedores y no como victimas. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
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Cuanto mas vivo, y cuanto mas cerca de Cristo camino, mayor es mi conviccion de que el no se toma el tiempo de explicar el por que. De modo que confiamos en el a lo largo de la vida sin la expectativa de que sea respondido el < |
Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 5dfbed1 | The church can seldom resurrect what the home puts to death. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 4e9d6a9 | Pain knocked upon my door and said That she had come to stay; And though I would not welcome her But bade her go away, She entered in. And like my own shade She followed after me, And from her stabbing, stinging sword, No moment was I free. And then one day another knocked Most gently at my door. I said, "No, Pain is here. There's not room for more." And then I heard His tender voice, "It is I, be not afraid." And from the day He entered in.. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| c4debf3 | THE JOB OF A PARENT IS TO HELP HIS OR HER CHILDREN COME TO KNOW THEMSELVES, GROW TO LIKE THEMSELVES, AND FIND SATISFACTION IN BEING THEMSELVES. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| d532f7d | Greece said, "Be wise, know yourself." Rome said, "Be strong, discipline yourself." Religion says, "Be good, conform yourself." Epicureanism says, "Be sensuous, satisfy yourself." Education says, "Be resourceful, expand yourself." Psychology says, "Be confident, assert yourself." Materialism says, "Be possessive, please yourself." Ascetism say, "Be lowly, suppress yourself." Humanism says, "Be capable, believe in yourself." Pride says, "Be .. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 6c46348 | Nehemiah i is a blend of prayer and action. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 6de917f | God constantly uses the lives of Bible characters to teach us, to encourage us, to warn us. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 620c09b | The Franks' decision to go into hiding was not, however, an unusual one. Of the Jews living in Holland between 1942 and 1943, twenty thousand and perhaps as many as thirty thousand--the estimates vary widely--saw going into hiding as their only alternative to deportation. "We are quite used to the idea of people in hiding, or 'underground,' as in bygone days one was used to Daddy's bedroom slippers warming in front of the fire," Anne noted .. | Melissa Müller | ||
| a8c0324 | The mania had given her a reckless invincibility, as drinking used to give me, a reckless certainty that she could, and should, get what she wanted at any cost. And | Jan Ellison | ||
| 65ebaa2 | They say the human body can lose 50 percent of its body parts and survive. But it depends on which parts, and which body. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 2d28826 | Doctor?" said Jan. "What doctor? I called him this morning and got his secretary on the line. I asked for a flu prescription and was told I could come pick it up tomorrow morning between eight and nine. If you've got a particularly bad case of flu, the doctor himself comes to the phone and says, 'Stick out your tongue and say "Aah." Oh, I can hear it, your throat's infected. I'll write out a prescription and you can bring it to the pharmacy.. | Anne Frank | ||
| 7c87f16 | The alliance of my father and brother and me seemed to trump normal adolescent activities. I was more often at home than out with my friends, and any entanglements I had with boys, I kept secret. My entanglements never went very far, anyway. I wasn't afraid of the sin of it, or of getting pregnant; I was afraid the main event--sex--would not be any good, and I would have to pretend it had been. Or I was afraid that when the moment arrived, .. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 68a3e2a | He somehow knew it was more important to be reassuring, to seem to be in command of the situation, than to be right. And he was always willing to give in when he was found out to be wrong. The | Jan Ellison | ||
| 7069437 | What happens to a marriage? A persistent failure of kindness, triggered at first, at least in my case, by the inequities of raising children, the sacrifices that take a woman by surprise and that she expects to be matched by her mate but that biology ensures cannot be. Anything could set me off. Any innocuous habit or slight or oversight. The way your father left the lights of the house blazing, day and night. The way he could become so dis.. | Jan Ellison | ||
| ba0e5b9 | I felt not jealousy so much as shame for not understanding the bond between them. The bond that was stalwart in the face of complacency and cruelty and wandering desire. The habit of each other that was the bedrock upon which they'd sunk the foundation of their mutual existence--and upon which they were standing, still. I | Jan Ellison | ||
| 2957b53 | I became a great internal shrug. All my organs gave way to the path of least resistance. I felt myself dislocating, but the dislocation did not have the expected result. Instead of removing me, it made me more present, more available, more pliable, more attuned. | Jan Ellison | ||
| ff79aef | I wanted that whole society frozen in revelry, and I wanted my feelings frozen, too. My life and all the things that had happened or might happen to me seemed distilled and poignant, and the evenings themselves timeless and meaningful. I was no longer self-conscious or afraid. I could say anything, and often did. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 32ca8b1 | perception is often loath to give up its stranglehold on the mind | Jan Ellison | ||
| ee085e4 | When you seek it, you cannot find it." We" | Jan Ellison | ||
| 89d7406 | TO LAY. To lie. A lay. A lie. It's a versatile but tricky word, isn't it? To get the lay of the land. To lay down the law. To lay blame. To lie low. To lie down on the job. To let it lie. To lie down and ... Not | Jan Ellison | ||
| 63bc6d2 | Emme. Like the letter. Like an eclipse. A force of nature that keeps coming around, taking out the lights. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 60c7cdf | How lucky I am that he turned up across the dance floor all those years ago and believed, then as now, that we were meant to build a life together. | Jan Ellison | ||
| e742872 | Already I sensed that to claim him, to take something of him without asking, would be to drive him away. When | Jan Ellison | ||
| c1ef399 | Confessions. For whose benefit besides one's own? T | Jan Ellison | ||
| 7848d63 | I suppose unrequited love is the hardest kind to shed because it is not really love at all. It is a half-love, and we are forever stomping around trying to get hold of the other half. W | Jan Ellison | ||
| 185be93 | Sunflowers face the sun all the time in the day even if the sun moves." They were not actually sunflowers--they were prince daisies--but I wasn't going to correct her. "Where did you learn that?" I asked her. "From Emme-and-Emme." Your father gave me a look. "That's weird," Polly said, bending down. "These two aren't facing the sun. They're facing away. They must be sick." "Maybe they think there's another sun," your father said. Polly look.. | Jan Ellison | ||
| d82d004 | I wondered why I had been so set on tall men. There were only three inches of height separating this man and me--if I turned around we would be almost eye to eye--and yet that felt exactly right. He | Jan Ellison | ||
| cc1e363 | She let me go. Not that she could have stopped me. Children will end up a world away, whether you want them to or not--unaware of the havoc being wreaked upon their histories back home. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 282ac8f | he did not often listen when I talked, so I ended up telling him things more than once, after a while not bothering to tell him much at all. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 9b38acd | being born with only one kidney, occurring in roughly one in two thousand people. | Jan Ellison | ||
| b3c558d | When we arrived at the hospital, you were in a medically induced coma, which I was made to understand was a sort of freezing of you, a fabricated reprieve from your own body that would allow your internal organs to rest. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 7a590c7 | Let's all throw unhappiness overboard. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 2eb76c7 | Standing there, I came face-to-face with the unwelcome finality of death. What can you do with it? It stops you cold when you think of it; it leaves you no out. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 16a8477 | I hoped with every mothering cell in my body. I hoped with every scrap of power and will, every particle of knowing you, the years and years of you, the joy and hurt, the work and pride, the worry and love. I hoped until it hurt. I hoped so hard I felt it finally turn to prayer. | Jan Ellison | ||
| c10f588 | Actually, when a tree falls, it creates shock waves. And when the shock waves reach an ear or an artificial mechanism like a microphone, they're transmitted into what we call sound," you said. "The shock waves themselves are not sound." | Jan Ellison | ||
| b7937e6 | A moment's friction for a life in which I would never again be free of my own body. | Jan Ellison | ||
| a94a638 | The heart is large, and there is more than one material in the bucket we call love. I loved your father. | Jan Ellison | ||
| efb8d2e | I was naked. I was human. I was fallible. I deserved to be forgiven. We all did. I | Jan Ellison | ||
| 857e521 | She moved across the pool deck with a languor, an unabashed sexual energy that made me feel like I was watching porn. | Jan Ellison | ||
| ed90d64 | Watching you together--your hair and eyes, your flesh and bone, your three bodies so frank and solid in the world--gave me immeasurable pleasure. It was pleasure derived not from parental pride, but from gratitude. We had been blessed by the existence on this earth of our three particular children, and we had been assigned a blessed task in keeping you all safe in the world. | Jan Ellison | ||
| 500b75b | I had the feeling I always have when God and death become entwined--that God is stepping in to steal the thunder of a human affair, a glorious union of flesh and blood, the miracle of two bodies making a new life out of love, a strictly human life that, like all lives, can end only in death. Human love. Human death. What's that got to do with God? Outside, | Jan Ellison | ||
| 1a91f86 | I hoped until it hurt. I hoped so hard I felt it finally turn to prayer. | Jan Ellison |