“Tears glinted in her eyes. "I want no secrets between us, Silas."
"No secrets," he echoed, his mouth near the gentle curve of her ear. "Then you should know I can hardly breathe for thinking of you. You're the most maddening lass I've ever known, and every day without you near is an agony to me." Taking her face between his hands, he moved to kiss her, but the sound of approaching horses gave him pause.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“That she was thirsty for heavenly things, there could be no doubt.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“I'd rather wear out than rust out," he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Samuel Johnson”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Gardening is the purest human pleasure. Francis Bacon”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“His fiddle weeps, she thought, yet it wooed her with its sweetness, warm as a lover’s touch.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“She’d already memorized the short Psalm and was hungry for more. Indeed, each word seemed woven into her soul the way the weaver wove his wares, taking the barest threads of her faith and making something beautiful and enduring as fine cloth deep inside her.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul. Benjamin Franklin”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Christ's kingdom has no frontier, ye ken.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Distance lends enchantment to the view. English proverb”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Are there any churches in the wilderness?” “Aye, the one I’ll build you.” His gaze held hers thoughtfully. “Christ’s kingdom has no frontier, ye ken.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.”
― Mary Renault, quote from The Charioteer
“I asked participants who claimed to be "strong followers of Jesus" whether Jesus spent time with the poor. Nearly 80 percent said yes. Later in the survey, I sneaked in another question, I asked this same group of strong followers whether they spent time wit the poor, and less than 2 percent said they did. I learned a powerful lesson: We can admire and worship Jesus without doing what he did. We can applaud what he preached and stood for without caring about the same things. We can adore his cross without taking up ours. I had come to see that the great tragedy of the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor.”
― Shane Claiborne, quote from The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Czułem się nieskończenie bogaty w przeszłość. Ileż pokoleń mogłem naliczyć od pojawienia się pierwszego płaza? Ile podziałów komórkowych mogłem zapisać na swoje konto od pierwszej zygoty? Czułem się niepokojąco bogaty w przeszłość. Nie miałem jednak żadnej przyszłości. Później miałem być niczym.”
― Jostein Gaarder, quote from Maya
“His voice deepened. "Sign them. We´re in the bedroom and i´m giving you an order.”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“Pain teaches, Par’chin, Jardir had once told him, and so we give it freely. Pleasure teaches nothing, and so must be earned.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
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