Be That One! Quotes

The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice

Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

It's raining... because I am angry...*You know my story!

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle

I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like, "Uh, huh." ~ from Dragon Flight

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

Just smile, breath, and give thanks (and there is always a reason to), because it beats the hell out of the alternative.

Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.

God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.

So the world was nuts and he'd suddenly discovered a kink for geeks. There were worse things.

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?

...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

Happiness is a choice not a result of something you do.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

And that’s the truth I needed to swallow: people don’t step out and love for you

An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.

I knew I had a choice. Either let you die and have the world blanketed with evil, or save you and make one dark moment for my best friend while the world continues to grow with light.

My lifesaver has always been the hazel iris of your soul. It never fails. When the world plunges me deep into the darkness, one look from you is all it takes to save me.

Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one’s priorities

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.

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When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.

God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.

I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician.

One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.~Quote by Brennan Manning

We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.

It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.

God’s Word not only gives authority to one’s ministry

Keep your head up and heart open. And make "Thank You" your mantra of life!

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change.

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

Gratitude is the key to manifestation, for gratitude connects you directly to the source.

In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing…okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous.

Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.

Our stories become self-fulfilling

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

. . . distant as the death of grocery chickens.