“Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will triumph in •Yahweh; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation! 19 Yahweh my Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer and enables me to walk on mountain heights! ”
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“If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the •world.”
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“For there was not a needy person among them, because all those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, 35 and laid them at the apostles' feet. This was then distributed for each person's basic needs.”
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“20 And Isaiah says boldly: I was found by those who were not looking for Me; I revealed Myself to those who were not asking for Me.”
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“Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out. ”
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“the virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name Him Immanuel, ”
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“22 A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig's snout. ”
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“Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.”
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“inexperience behind, and you will live; pursue the way of understanding.”
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“4 For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love 5 He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, 6 to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved. ”
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“to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your relative.”
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“people are enslaved to whatever defeats them. ”
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“3 This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands. 4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” yet doesn't keep His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God is perfected. This is how we know we are in Him: 6 The one who says he remains in Him should •walk just as He walked.”
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“You have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy person in his distress, a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat. When the breath of the violent is like rain against a wall, 5 like heat in a dry land, You subdue the uproar of barbarians. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day, so He silences the song of the violent.”
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“1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ”
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“you have been foolish by exalting yourself or if you've been scheming, put your hand over your mouth.”
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“7 We have •redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace”
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“4 If the ruler's anger rises against you, don't leave your place, for calmness puts great offenses to rest. ”
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“righteousness for yourselves and reap faithful love; break up your unplowed ground. It is time to seek the Lord until He comes and sends righteousness on you like the rain. ”
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“10 He was in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the •world did not recognize Him.”
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“14 The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the •One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
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“If the ax is dull, and one does not sharpen its edge, then one must exert more strength; however, the advantage of wisdom is that it brings success.”
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“No one will snatch them out of My hand.”
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“23 I know, Lord, that a man’s way of life is not his own; no one who walks determines his own steps. ”
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“But the righteous one will live by his faith.”
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“The calm words of the wise are heeded more than the shouts of a ruler over fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much good. ”
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“I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.”
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“20 On the first day of the week •Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark. She saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.”
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“26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. ”
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“18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord! ” And she told them what He had said to her.”
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“I don’t want to confine you, I don’t want to control you. I want to set you free.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“Sometimes you just gotta cut the cord, blood or no.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Source
“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower to flower, and sipping honey for their sole delight. They have no feeling that any result which might flow from their action should concern them. They have no conception of the necessity of a well-organized society wherein all shall accept a certain quota of responsibility and all realize a reasonable amount of happiness. They think only of themselves because they have not yet been taught to think of society. For them pain and necessity are the great taskmasters. Laws are but the fences which circumscribe the sphere of their operations. When, after error, pain falls as a lash, they do not comprehend that their suffering is due to misbehavior. Many such an individual is so lashed by necessity and law that he falls fainting to the ground, dies hungry in the gutter or rotting in the jail and it never once flashes across his mind that he has been lashed only in so far as he has persisted in attempting to trespass the boundaries which necessity sets. A prisoner of fate, held enchained for his own delight, he does not know that the walls are tall, that the sentinels of life are forever pacing, musket in hand. He cannot perceive that all joy is within and not without. He must be for scaling the bounds of society, for overpowering the sentinel. When we hear the cries of the individual strung up by the thumbs, when we hear the ominous shot which marks the end of another victim who has thought to break loose, we may be sure that in another instance life has been misunderstood--we may be sure that society has been struggled against until death alone would stop the individual from contention and evil.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carry
“When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.”
― Kevin Wilson, quote from The Family Fang
“The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.”
― Markus Zusak, quote from Fighting Ruben Wolfe
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