41 quotes found
“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”
“Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.""That's true. That's the truest th...”
“In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourselfyou...”
“You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.”
“Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary t...”
“The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically at least, its hard. Our culture teaches none of its false lessons more ...”
“Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just ha...”
“Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?”
“You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.”
“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A...”
“Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?”
“Im feeling very thin and vulnerable, in a good way.”
“This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub cryin...”
“I do the splits perfectly in PE. I lose half a pound in two days. I get the spinach and pig-meat frittata from the lo-carb section for lunch. And no-one else knows. I mentally construct a MyFace st...”
“Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.”
“The wilderness was the testing groundthe deciding place. It was a place of God revealing himself in a whole new and deeper way. Would his people trust him completely, confident in his goodness, wis...”
“Do you find yourself in a dry place today? Dont look back toward the land of your bondage, or even to the place where God miraculously saved you from your enemies. Those seasons are over and he is ...”
“I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs. That was all. But, nevertheless, it is any thing but agreeable to be haunted...”
“Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.”
“We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at Gods feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and Gods share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of our own pocket, a deduc...”
