“Dear God,how can I live a vanilla life when I'm a strawberry girl?”
― Lorna Seilstad, quote from Making Waves
“If we’re lucky, God blesses us with a few folks who are willing to look beyond the flaws and see the person we try so hard to hide. And if we’re blessed, we find someone who’ll love us anyway.”
― Lorna Seilstad, quote from Making Waves
“Lord, I can’t live in his mashed potato world. I need my tubers scalloped and diced and baked and fried and different every time. I need excitement and change as much as I need air.”
― Lorna Seilstad, quote from Making Waves
“When you love someone, they deserve to know the truth”
― Lorna Seilstad, quote from Making Waves
“If we don’t have dreams, Lilly, what do we have? Besides, aren’t you the one who always says to delight myself in the Lord and He will give me the desires of my heart?”
― Lorna Seilstad, quote from Making Waves
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“Cel care creează nu-l poate iubi pe cel care critică. Există o diferență prea mare între cele două activități. Una este naștere, cealaltă chirurgie.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly, without fuss, without going into big emotional scenes. He was so efficient, so reliable, so brave. Whenever we fell short, he made up the gap. I'm not just talking about the red hot moments, when enemy soldiers were shooting at us, when we were within a moment of death. I'm talking about the sourer times too, when we were so tired we could hardly remember to breathe, or we were so bored we'd pick at each other just for something to do, or so distressed we'd wish a soldier would come along and blow us into oblivion with an M16. At all those times Lee stood strong. He was like the Wirrawee grain silo. You could see the grain silo from miles away, tall and reliable. It stood for Wirrawee, and it gave you a safe comforting feeling to know it was there. That was how I'd felt about Lee during the war.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows, Aeddan, he knows.” Beaming, Gunnar concluded, “Is that not good news?”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“إن الذنب بالمعنى المألوف دينيا ودنيويا لا يفهم إلا في إطار البناء الشمولي للمجتمع وهو بناء ينتمي للنموذج التملكي لوجودنا, حيث مركزنا الإنساني لا يوجد في داخلنا, ولكنه موجود في السلطة التي نخضع لها, وحيث نحقق الرفاهية من خلال نشاطنا الذاتي الخلاق, ولكن بالطاعة السلبية للسلطة, ومن ثم استحسانها لما نفعل, ونحن نملك قائدا دنيويا او روحيا, ملكا او ملكة او راعي كنيسة ونملك ايمانا به, ومن ثم نملك الأمن والأمان طالما نحن لا شيء, اي لا كيان مستقل لنا, قد لا نكون واعيين بخضوعنا للسلطة إلى هذا الحد وقد تكون السلطة في مظهرها صارمة أو قد تكون رقيقة, وقد لا يكون البناء الاجتماعي مكتمل الشمولية.. ولكن كل هذا يجب ألا يجعلنا غافلين عن حقيقة أننا نعيش في النمط التملكي إلى الدرجة التي صار البناء الشمولي لمجتمعنا جزءا من ذاتنا واصبح مبدأ داخليا هاديا لمشاعرنا وسلوكنا.
ونحن نتفق مع الفونس أوير حين يؤكد بوضوح أن رؤية توما الأكويني للسلطة وعدم الطاعة والخطيئة هي رؤية تتفق تماما مع النزعة الانسانية, حيث يذهب إلى أن الخروج على سلطة غير عقلانية ليس ذنبا أو إثما, وإنما الإثم يكون في انتهاك الحياة الانسانية الكريمة.
"لا يمكن أن نسيء إلى الرب إلا إذا كانت أفعالنا انتهاكا لحياتنا وكرامتنا نحن".”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“Bildiğim bir şey varsa oda karşılığını vermeden bir şey alamayacağınızdır, istediğiniz şey ne kadar büyükse karşılığında ödemeniz gereken bedel de o kadar büyük olur.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Oracle Night
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