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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a3c3b8 | Don't make mournful faces at me," he added." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 65fe54f | How did you," he said, pushing himself up on an elbow, indignation finally dawning, and I pushed him back down and kissed him." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 4bd4549 | Maybe he would let me come in, but he'd want to close the doors up again behind me. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 7c7e2eb | But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 0aab1e7 | I glared at him speechlessly; how dare he put a pet name on me? | Naomi Novik | ||
| c9a3e92 | I felt as though I were pretending to be grown-up. | Naomi Novik | ||
| ac6f937 | they were wild-eyed and terrified even in their courage. | Naomi Novik | ||
| fc50014 | I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them--this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man. | Naomi Novik | ||
| e5ccf84 | I just sobbed myself out until I had too much of a headache to go on crying, and after that I was cold and stiff | Naomi Novik | ||
| 2a483db | Kradets't, koito e otkradnal nozh i se e poriazal na nego, ne mozhe da obviniava domakiniata, che go e d'rzhala ost'r. | нож поговорка пословица | Naomi Novik | |
| 45d3f0e | true, but unkind anyway. | Naomi Novik | ||
| f8c4086 | and her laugh was like a song that made you want to sing it. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 660e9ce | if he had been in any danger of turning his head at all, except perhaps all the way round like an owl. | Naomi Novik | ||
| da47fb7 | My first description held true: I felt as though I was picking my way through a bit of forest that I had never seen before, and her words were like another experienced gleaner somewhere ahead of me calling back to say, There are blueberries down on the northern slope, or Good mushrooms by the birches over here, or There's an easy way through the brambles on the left. She didn't care how I got to the blueberries; she only pointed me in the p.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| c8d786b | They looked at me and saw someone out of a story, who might ride by and be stared at, but didn't belong in their lives at all. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 977c499 | Happiness was bubbling up through me, a bright stream laughing. | Naomi Novik | ||
| fb8d140 | I am not whimpering, at all," Temeraire muttered, and added, "ow!" There" | Naomi Novik | ||
| 8b61969 | I say to you, here are the dangers. Some are more likely than others. Weigh them, put them all together, and you will know the cost. Then you must say, is this what you owe? | Naomi Novik | ||
| a1fc182 | if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 52b41fc | In Eudora Welty's masterful story "Why I Live at the P.O." (1941), the narrator is engaged in a sibling rivalry with her younger sister, who has come home after leaving under suspicious if not actually disgraceful circumstances. The narrator, Sister, is outraged at having to cook two chickens to feed five people and a small child just because her "spoiled" sister has come home. What Sister can't see, but we can, is that those two fowl are r.. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 0e22102 | Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What results can sometimes be as much our creation as the novelist's or playwright's. | literature reading reading-life | Thomas C. Foster | |
| eef77f8 | We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or 'decay.' It expands, it increases. When we feel that it has become stagnant or stale, that usually just means we ourselves are not paying sufficient attention. | death-of-literature literature progress stagnant | Thomas C. Foster | |
| e2294b8 | There is, in fact, no form of dysfunctional family or no personal disintegration of character for which there is not a Greek or Roman model. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 3a8c85d | So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| d596d13 | Countering this view, confessing Christians seek to maintain the unity of the church through discipline, not through division. The confessing movement is strongly committed to staying WITHIN. It is better for churches to learn to respect their own legislative processes and discipline themselves accordingly than to face the even greater problems of separation, division of property, and the anguish of divorce. Confessing Christians seek to re.. | church-discipline schism | Thomas C. Oden | |
| ab42666 | God is the uncreated source and end of all things; one; incomparably alive; insurmountable in presence, knowledge, and power; personal, eternal spirit, who in holy love freely creates, sustains, and governs all things. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| ef1e07a | One need not disavow the gifts of intellect in giving thought to their Giver | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 6304360 | Christ is the singular embodiment of truth, infinitely plural in meaning. Christ is the sum and hidden interior meaning of all other genuine revelations of God | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 8ee61e7 | Christianity does not limit revelation to Christ, but through Christ sees God's revelation as occurring elsewhere and finally, echoing everywhere. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 9713a2d | Christ is the unparalleled and unrepeatable Revealer through whom other revelations are best understood | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| b76294f | Humanity is God's constant preoccupation throughout the Bible. The Christian study of God cannot neglect God's own prevailing interest--the redemption of humanity. No Christian theology can speak only of God and never of human beings. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 45abef2 | Revelation is for human salvation, the mending of human brokenness (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word 3). | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 355efe4 | Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| ccecb28 | Human freedom is created by God with a capacity for responsiveness to God. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 24fe3d4 | Human personality is created with the restless yearning for communion with the unseen but present personal God (Augustine, Conf. 1.1). | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 5253d71 | Human love is created with some capacity, however distorted, to love God and to love creatures through God. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 25570ae | Here is the essential movement. The reality of the church emerges out of the saving action of God in Christ through the Spirit; the church is the providential means and sphere through which persons are enabled to participate in eternal life. The birth of the church of Jesus Christ is engendered by the regenerating power of the Spirit. The nurture of the church occurs by grace through Word and Sacraments. The present church shares in the com.. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| e31fd18 | The most urgent and demanding question for Christian believers is not whether "a supreme being of some kind" exists, but rather whether this incomparably good and powerful and compassionate source and end of all things truly is as revealed in Scripture" | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| f988585 | Yet to decide that this One exists is not quite like deciding that anything else exists. For this decision assumes a wider implication that the decider shall order his or her life around the existence of this One, if this One exists at all. It is not merely a casual or theoretical decision that makes no necessary difference to the way one lives the rest of one's life | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 2a1f8c1 | Rightly understood, it is an all-embracing, intrusive question, and for this reason many prefer to dodge it or to proceed as if it were an abstract, theoretical question. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| b4778ff | The worshiping community confesses and intercedes on the basis of, not the theory of God's existence, but the experience of a multigenerational community of witnesses. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 032aa78 | A critical, probing faith is a necessary and useful stage toward an assured and confirmed faith (Job 3:1-26; Clement of Alex., Stromata 8.9; Luther, Letters of Spiritual Counsel). | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| 422fcdc | The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. | Thomas C. Oden | ||
| d449e71 | Faith's premises are felt to be so valuable that they deserve the best intellectual reflection possible to confirm argumentatively what faith already knows inwardly | Thomas C. Oden |