“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”
“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”
“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”
“Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.”
“Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.”
“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”
“I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.”
“Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?”
“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.”
“Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God.
--- Hadassah”
“Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display.
What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?”
“Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.”
“Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to pleasing her God by serving others. This God that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This God wanted all of her.”
“I gave up what I can't keep, for something I can never lose.”
“إن لم يكُن لدينا ما يستحقُّ أن نموتَ من أجله، يا أتريتِس، فليس لَدَينا ما يستحقُّ أن نعيشَ لأجله”
“لقد تخليت عما لا يمكنني أن أحتفظ به، في سبيل ما لا أقدر أن أخسره.”
“A beautiful face can mask great evil...”
“But I know Jesus arose. I feel his presence now, here, with me. I see the evidence of his Word everyday. From creation forth, the whole world is witness to God's plan revealed through his Son. From the beginning, he prepared us. In the passing of the seasons; in the way flowers spring forth, die, and drop seeds for life to begin again; in the sunset and sunrise. Jesus' sacrifice is reenacted every day of our lives if we but have the eyes to see.”
“How can we be witnesses of the one true God if we hold the truth as our own possession? God meant his truth for the world.”
“We're each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full picture, but not even a sparrow falls without his knowing.”
“How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?”
“Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?”
“Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
“He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness,”
“God will give you courage when you need it.”
“But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.”
“ليس في وسع البشر أن يتجنَّبوا المصير، حتى لو رأوه سَلَفاً”
“علينا أن نغتنم كل فرصة للتكلُّم بالحق والمُناداة بالسلام، ولا سيما الآن. بقى وقت قصيرٌ جداً لكثيرين جداً”
“solid and dense as his own, a nose ring and angelbites.”
“Let us discuss these problems in some detail. One problem is to amass enough energy to rip the fabric of space and time. The simplest way to do this is to compress an object until it becomes smaller than its "event horizon." For the sun, this means compressing it down to about 2 miles in diameter, whereupon it will collapse into a black hole. (The Sun's gravity is too weak to compress it naturally down to 2 miles, so our sun will never become a black hole, In principle, this means that anything, even you, can become a black hole if you were sufficiently compressed. This would mean compressing all the atoms of your body to smaller than subatomic distances-a feat that is beyond the capabilities of modern science.)
A more practical approach would be to assemble a batter of laser beams to fire an intense beam at a specific spot. Or to build a huge atom smasher to create two beams, which would then collide with each other at fantastic energies, sufficient to create a small tear in the fabric of space-time.”
“No wonder everyone is keen to put their feet up and let Fate look after them. It's rather like your granddad. Or a very hands-on organised person, sort of your own personal PA.
Only in my experience Fate is no such thing, and the same goes for his little brother, Destiny. Quite frankly they’ve made a real mess of things where I’m concerned. So from now on they can bugger off and stop meddling. I’m taking charge of my own life, and when it comes to love, Fate can mind its own bloody business.”
“We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.”
“Other people’s perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves”
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