“Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“Spirit. And it will be that love,”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“We worshiped our ancestors. We believed in the spirits of men and animals,”
― Joseph Duncan, quote from The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All
“Take this guinea then and use it, not to burn the house down, but to make its windows blaze. And let the daughters of uneducated women dance round the new house, the poor house, the house that stands in a narrow street where omnibuses pass and the street hawkers cry their wares, and let them sing, ‘We have done with war! We have done with tyranny!’ And their mothers will laugh from their graves, ‘It was for this that we suffered obloquy and contempt! Light up the windows of the new house, daughters! Let them blaze!”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from Three Guineas
“Una pistola negra. Un colorido diente de león en la cubierta.
Y una explosión que astillaba las tablas del barco.
Y oscuridad.
Por unos momentos luchó como si pudiera apagar la visión con sus manos, agitando con las piernas, pero de repente le embargo una repentina e intensa paz. Se extendió por su interior al igual que la sangre avanza a través de la tela, saturando cada una de sus fibras.
Iba a morir, de acuerdo, pero ése no sería el día.
Y fue entonces cuando decidió que llevaría su barco al último confín occidental del mundo.
Porque aún había miles de aventuras por vivir, y apenas un numero finito de días para hacerlo.
Porque el mundo lo esperaba allí fuera.
¿Y porqué no?
Con ese último pensamiento, sonrió y cerró los ojos, dejó que el agua se lo llevara.”
― Traci Chee, quote from The Reader
“The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you'll have to actually live -- no evers or afters required.”
― Abby McDonald, quote from Getting Over Garrett Delaney
“To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quote from The School for Scandal
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