Quotes of: Our-lives Keyword

The way we live our lives is not sustainable. I don’t just mean recycling and turning off the faucet while brushing your teeth. I mean the way we treat each other. The way we pick and choose whose lives are important – who we actually treat as hu...

Vivian Apple at the End of the World

One of the questions that surprised me most was this: “Mommy, if Jesus comes to live inside my heart, will I explode?” “No!” I proclaimed as the children and I headed to the Nile River for a few of them to be baptized that day. Then I thought...

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that...

James Truslow Adams

...it is a mistake to reduce every decision about Christian living to a "Heaven-or-Hell issue." For example, some ask if the Bible specifically says a certain action is a "sin" or will send them to "Hell." If not, they feel free to indulge in that ac...

David K. Bernard

You are all talking a bit too much, said Armando, who had cautioned them from the beginning to stay out of popular culture and in their own interior worlds. When you are caught up in the world that you did not design as support for your life and the ...

The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Casebook

Our stories become self-fulfilling; we will always live up to the story. So make it a desired one

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.

The Dream Thieves

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

If abandoned rage asks, / Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.

The End of the Alphabet: Poems

We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.

Far from You

as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.

Gold Cord

There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

The B-Side Diaries

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

The Brothers Karamazov

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

The Book of My Lives

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Billy Joel

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

My heartbeat keeps me alive. Your heartbeat lets me know I'm alive. Our heartbeats give me the reason to live.

548 Heartbeats

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

Afterwards

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

The Isle of Blood