C. Elizabeth Quotes
Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet
It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)
When you're of a different race people distrust you because they are afraid. If you don't give them reason to dislike you, it becomes their problem, not yours.
At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.
Oh no, was I to be one of those girls who gets attacked by a jealous girlfriend?
He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.
When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.
During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.
Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.
... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...
... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.
She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.
If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.
God’s ways and His will come in His own perfect time.
Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life.
It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.
With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Friend. Before Mark, I’d known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.
There will always be detours in the fascinating game called life. Find the path to your heart’s desires, and stay on course.
Hannah's magic cure for every ill, " he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten.
Love's the sonstood stammering elocutionwhile the poor ship in flames went down
In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.
If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.
This was one of those times that a pint just wouldn't cut it.
I spent most of my life believing there would never be a Prince Charming out there for me. Kissing toads can have that effect on a girl.
Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.
Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.
These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.
As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.
The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way.
Don't we have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for awhile.
all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.
Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.
What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please.
But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.
This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.
When you love someone, it's never over, ' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.
When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.
Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way.
The Santa Ana Windgusts downdesert canyons.Hot. Dry. Electric.Some say it ignites tempers.I say it ignited us.
Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone...
Death is the privilege of human natureAnd life without it were not worth our takingThither the poor, the unfortunate, and MournerFly for relief & lay their burdens down.