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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 683fc2c | This town has so many blessings from God, but if we do something stupid out of greed, we could destroy those blessings. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| abd5016 | God will help you," Maggie said. "He's just waiting to be asked." | Terri Blackstock | ||
| fbd60d0 | She pulls upright, wiping her face 'But that's another one of those cliches I don't get. The light. I feel it sometimes. It makes sense that you have to beat back the darkness, but I just don't understand why there's darkness in the first place. Sometimes I feel like the world has fractured into a million pieces and they're closing in on me, and I have to push each piece back with my hands and my feet and my head to keep it from squeezing m.. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 736710d | she had wondered if any of his Christianity was true. Had it all been a cover? A way to network and look honest? Or had he truly loved Jesus, but found ways to compartmentalize the sin in his life as so many others did? | Terri Blackstock | ||
| e588e57 | He was bitter about many things, but not about God. He still prayed constantly. Still went to church. Still reminded her that God loved her and was watching. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 8144737 | It wouldn't be worth going on." The words caught in her throat, and tears sprang to her eyes. "I know it all sounds far-fetched. I've thought that too. That my mistakes ... and there are an awful lot of them ... couldn't possibly be erased clean. That Jesus couldn't possibly forgive them. But I think that's the whole point of why he came." | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 6f1da63 | Starting immediately, thank God for every gift He gives, from those as small as a whiff of honeysuckle or jasmine in your backyard, to the realization that you just had a few moments without back pain, to really big things like the fact that [people you love] are in the next room safe and sound. "I'm" | Terri Blackstock | ||
| c587ed3 | For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; weeping may last for the night, but joy comes in the morning. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 8334eff | Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption. Jesus will not let us down. I | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 285502d | loved to go and make fun of the homecoming | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 95c068b | Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren't immune to tragedy. That we can't use this fallen world to gauge our value to God. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| d42fbd2 | Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| ebc027b | His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| e8ac3e0 | You know, son, God will give you what you choose. And if you think about that real hard, it'll scare you to death. I don't think you're ready to suffer the consequences of those choices. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| c85014f | disappointment | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 418c006 | The Lord sometimes uses sorrow in our lives to deepen us," Miss Lucy says. "This is one of those times." "Why do we have to be deep?" I wonder aloud. Miss Lucy looks at me as if she's never considered that question. "Because what good are we if we're shallow? He can use us when we have some depth. He had sorrows, so why shouldn't we?" | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 5deafbf | Maybe we all need a glimpse of life without someone we love once in a while, just to teach us not to take them for granted. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 23b1550 | You're the prettiest girl I've ever known," he said. She smiled, knowing it wasn't true. But it was true to him." | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 378ebcc | There's something healing about sitting here and listening to the waves, knowing that God is still in control even when it seems like he's not. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| dad7954 | Everyone here is in a lot of pain, and as they say, hurting people hurt people. Part of your recovery | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 7dc4fee | I've said this before, Lord, but I'm so sorry for all the stupid choices I've made. I want to start over, with your guidance. I can't afford to make mistakes now. Will you turn up the volume on your voice, and turn mine down? Will you give me that wisdom you promised if we ask? | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 242516d | This is all so tangled and so impossible, but God did the impossible tonight. He does it all the time. I'm so overcome by it that I can't formulate an elaborate prayer. I simply whisper, "Thank you." | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 295d1d1 | Introducing 'Lite' - The new way to spell 'Light', but with 20 per cent fewer letters. JERRY SEINFELD | John Lloyd | ||
| 0b34c5b | In the face of uncertainty, our first instinct is often to reject novelty, looking for reasons why unfamiliar concepts might fail. When managers vet novel ideas, they're in an evaluative mindset. To protect themselves against the risks of a bad bet, they compare the new notion on the table to templates of ideas that have succeeded in the past. When publishing executives passed on Harry Potter, they said it was too long for a children's book.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 34b76cd | According to the Nobel Committee (the group of ultra-liberals in Norway who pick the prize winners), Obama was awarded the 2009 prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."8 Really? After less than a year in office? This was an award modeled after Seinfeld--it truly was about nothing, and meant nothing, at least in reality. Even the Obama administration had the good grace to be.. | Eric Bolling | ||
| d4fe6d1 | Myron showered and threw on a pair of sweats. His pants had blood on them. His own. He remembered that old Seinfeld routine about laundry detergent commercials that talk about getting out bloodstains, how if you have bloodstains on your clothes, maybe laundry wasn't your biggest worry. The | Harlan Coben | ||
| c967f83 | We shall lie down," Lincoln warned, "pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free; and we shall awake to the reality, instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State." Lincoln" | Eric Foner | ||
| 9fd92d4 | Lincoln, who had always craved recognition, had found his life's purpose. The "higher object of this contest," he wrote, "may not be completely attained within the term of my natural life. But...I am proud...to contribute an humble mite to that glorious consummation, which my own poor eyes may not last to see." There was no mistaking that the "consummation" Lincoln envisioned was the eventual eradication of slavery, not simply a halt to its.. | Eric Foner | ||
| 0ac4743 | Faust also discusses the belief in salvation as a factor in nerving soldiers to face death with equanimity and as a source of comfort to their families. She cites the funeral sermon for a Massachusetts officer killed at Petersburg, in which the clergyman defined death as "the middle point between two lives." But she seems inclined at times to view this conviction as the equivalent of grasping at straws--or, to change the metaphor, of whistl.. | James M McPherson | ||
| 47a9937 | The truth is, when bullets are whacking against tree-trunks and solid shot are cracking skulls like egg-shells, the consuming passion in the breast of the average man is to get out of the way. Between the physical fear of going forward and the moral fear of turning back, there is a predicament of exceptional awkwardness. | James M. McPherson | ||
| 6ddbf6f | Governor Beriah Magoffin | James M. McPherson | ||
| a17da73 | He accused Democrats of attempting to "dehumanize the negro--to take away from him the right of ever striving to be a man...to make property, and nothing but property of the Negro in all the states of this Union." In the rhetorical high point of the seven debates, he identified the long crusade against slavery with the global progress of democratic egalitarianism: That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country .. | Eric Foner | ||
| 3b5e508 | But the abolition laws of the other northern states freed no living slave. Rather, slave children born after a specified date would work for the mother's owner as indentured servants until well into adulthood (age twenty-eight, for example, in Pennsylvania, far longer than what was customary for white indentured servants), and only then would become free. Most Latin American nations also allowed slaveholders to retain ownership of existing .. | Eric Foner | ||
| 7be71a0 | Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, December 1, 1862 | Eric Foner | ||
| fa6e16d | Max Weber defended the social utility of the politician's calling and identified three qualities required for success: devotion to a cause; a sense of responsibility; and judgment, or being attuned to the consequences of one's actions. These usefully define Lincoln's own qualities as a politician. Yet Weber concluded by noting the symbiotic relationship between political action and moral agitation. "What is possible," he wrote, "would not h.. | Eric Foner | ||
| c40fcdb | Taken by surprise," as he put it, and unwilling to see the possibility of electing an antislavery senator disappear, Lincoln ordered his backers to cast their votes for Trumbull, ensuring his victory on the next ballot.23 If this episode demonstrated anything, it was that prior political affiliations constituted a major obstacle to antislavery cooperation. The outcome left Lincoln bitterly disappointed. But his willingness to sacrifice pers.. | Eric Foner | ||
| ad348f2 | The assumption that the slave is in a better condition than the hired laborer, includes the further assumption that he who is once a hired laborer always remains a hired laborer; that there is a certain class of men who remain through life in a dependent condition.... In point of fact that is a false assumption. There is no such thing as a man who is a hired laborer, of a necessity, always remaining in his early condition. The general rule .. | Eric Foner | ||
| 204acef | How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it, "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it come.. | Eric Foner | ||
| f5d8cb3 | As a Whig, Lincoln had seen the slavery question as a threat to party unity and economic policy as a source of party strength. Now, he realized, the situation was reversed. He worked to ensure that the new party with its heterogeneous membership ignored divisive issues like the Whig economic agenda, which he had strenuously advocated for two decades but which would alienate former Democrats. | Eric Foner | ||
| a8719f8 | This was the clarion cry taken up by the GOP in the aftermath of the Civil War. Virtually all the black leaders who emerged from that era were Republicans who supported the GOP's call to remove race as the basis of government policy and social action. Historian Eric Foner writes that black activists of the antebellum era embraced "an affirmation of Americanism that insisted blacks were entitled to the same rights and opportunities that whit.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| e1fc8e8 | A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in cou.. | Eric Foner | ||
| 0e9bc28 | Lincoln spoke of slaveholders not as reprobates and sinners but as men and women enmeshed in a system from which they could not disentangle themselves. "They are just what we would be in their situation," | Eric Foner | ||
| 177bc3e | Our government," Lincoln declared, "rests on public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government." The task of Republicans was to counteract Democrats' "gradual and steady debauching of public opinion" until it no longer valued the central ideal of equality.52 Like the abolitionists, Lincoln saw public sentiment as the terrain on which the crusade against slavery was to be waged." | Eric Foner | ||
| 350aa5f | In keeping with the exceptionalist vision of nationhood so common in postrevolutionary America, he proclaimed that the founders had put in place a political system more conducive to liberty than any in history. His generation's duty was to preserve this "political edifice" and bequeath it to the future. The greatest danger to its continued existence lay within: "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher." Where.. | Eric Foner |