“...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.”
― Terri Blackstock, quote from Last Light
“Being from a Christian family doesn’t make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage —”
― Terri Blackstock, quote from Last Light
“Instead of worrying, we need to be seeking His kingdom and His righteousness.”
― Terri Blackstock, quote from Last Light
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
― Terri Blackstock, quote from Last Light
“It’s time to start storing up our treasures in heaven, instead of hoarding them on earth.”
― Terri Blackstock, quote from Last Light
“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.
It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.
According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.”
― Karl Marx, quote from The Communist Manifesto
“Ali kamo idemo, ne znamo. Možda ćemo uspjeti preživjeti boleštine i umaknuti selekcijama, možda ćemo izdržati napor i glad koji nas rastaču: a onda? Ovdje, trenutačno daleko od psovki i batina, iznova se možemo vratiti sebi samima i meditirati, a tada postaje jesno da se nećemo vratiti. Mi smo putovali sve dovde u plombiranim vagonima! Vidjeli smo kako put ništavila odlaze naše žene i djeca; nakon što su od nas napravili robove, marširali smo sto puta tamo-amo zaludu, ugašene duše prije bezlične smrti. Nećemo se vratiti. Odavde nitko ne smije izaći, jer bi u svijet mogao ponijeti, zajedno sa znakom utisnutim u tijelo, opaku vijest o tome koliko čovjeku treba hrabrosti, u Auschwitzu, da bude čovjek.”
― Primo Levi, quote from Survival in Auschwitz
“You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says, looking at me from the corner of her eye. "Or else someone will start thinking they're Divergent.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from Four: A Divergent Story Collection
“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Firefly Lane
“- I don't want you to love me.
- Too late, mi chava.”
― Simone Elkeles, quote from Chain Reaction
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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