When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.
We can’t spend our lives wondering, ‘what if?’ We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones
The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
Don't build a team that will fuel your 'ego'. Build a team that has the skills, desire & passion for fueling the 'vision'.
There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.
She knew it was going to happen, was ready for it, but when he pulled her to his lips, nothing could have prepared her for the heavy rush of desire that slammed through her.
There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.
It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
2.27 THE ULTIMATE With compassion and renunciation walking, With wants and desires ever shedding, With love within one’s heart flowing, Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting. [158] - 2
4.45 CREATION Man’s creation – with use clearly decreases, It but fulfillment of want and desire please; God’s Creation – but with use increases, It the fulfillment of love, truly never ceases. [271] - 4
4.04 APOLOGY A second insult be just a stiff apology, As the first be when hurt was the party; Damages for aggrieved no medicine be, But healing from hurt - the desire only. [38] - 4
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.
Luca chuckled. “You will learn to trust me, princess.” Ryan scoffed as he also brushed past Luca and walked into the library. “Like hell she will.
