C.L. Bennett Quotes

O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.

One key to student success: Learning requires effort and study.

Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but make time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind

The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.

The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.

I'm just saying love has a lot to do with the power of forgiveness.

A deal's a deal. Nothing is for nothing. Everything has its price.

the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share

I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

Leave someone who hates you as much as you hate yourself.

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.

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Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

Truth is the old way. Truth dates back to the time when your word was your bond, and you didn't need papers in a language you couldn't understand to compel you to act honestly.

Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.

End each day in the arms of the one you love!

Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but making time to look at the beauty of clouds gives you peace of mind.

I found a dollar in the street today. I find a dollar in the street every day. At the end of each week, I gather seven dollars and give it to the homeless. What else would I do with the money?

One has no room for vengeance, ' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.

If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.

The chandelier's teardrop crystals twinkled above them like stars. It was easy to imagine that they were miles away from London, and that only the two of them existed.

Soulful healing asks, while you are healing your body with herbs from Earth, that you look for the meaning in what is happening within your body as it relates to your whole being.

Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

Indulge me this once, Meg. Her name was a whisper on his lips. Soft. Seductive. Meanwhile his eyes gleamed mischievously, daring her to say yes.

For her, their romantic interlude atop the staircase had been a glorious, magical, enlightening introduction to pleasure. For him, it had merely been Friday evening.

INDECISION NOW!' isn’t a battle cry that’s going to rouse anybody’s blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn’t the sanest one.

There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it’s so important. I’ve wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.

Al he knew was that he'd never met anyone who caused him to doubt and to hope as much as she did.

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.

I don't have the time or the energy to hate, " says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.

Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.

The how of any betrayal was the hardest part to justify. How the lies can be assembled and stacked and maintained until the truth was completely hidden behind them.

Trev, all you had to do was breathe to make me want you.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.

I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.

why would i date him i like someone else"... "I'm the only someone else you know

Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.

Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.