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You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.

My dad is shagging your aunt, probably right now. That makes us almost family.

over his own dark Cealdish beard. “Nothing like your marvelous facebear,

Those who speak of man's "free will, " and insist upon his inherent power to either accept or reject the Saviour, do but voice their ignorance of the real condition of Adam's fallen children.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment.

Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are

A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.

That’s kind of creepy,

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.

He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one.

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.

I’m saying there is evil in the world, ” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.

It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

Time to the face the music,

In my father’s scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.

There’s always a bear,

As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

My skin tingled, and suddenly, Deanna materialized before us. I jumped.

adults forget how difficult that task was.

joking and laughing as they headed off to their new life

Decide, first, to simply be.

He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.

So that’s what art is, for the artist, ” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’

For all our penny-wisdom, ’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

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at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we’re willing to die on.

Recovering Leah knows fear stands for false expectations appearing real.

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.

Lore: Making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!

I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.

He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

Doing, in a life of balance, should be driven from who you have decided to be.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity, ” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this,

For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.

The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good.

It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn’t respond to our needs and requests.

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God’s presence resides? a

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.