D.A. Carson Quotes
But the lost one is with you.Her tenderness strengthens you, Her gaiety uplifts you, Her honor purifies you.More than memory, The lost one is found.
When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known
... He was only a person on the outside and... his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain.
Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.
Because in some men, it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons - throw it to some human being or some human idea.
I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.
When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.
Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.
Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands
Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.
When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.
A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.
She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone’s arm after you grab it?
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.
Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.
If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.
The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.
There was another thing bigger than the tiredness – and this was the strong crew purpose.
Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.
Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded himJoyfully
If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.
If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.
His gaze drops to my lips. "I shouldn't do this--""You really should." And I close the distance between us.
To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.
Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.
Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.
Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.
But if we decide contextually specific questions of synonymy on the basis of the total semantic range of each word, any synonymy in any context is virtually impossible.
Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me?I remember you.Clouds brushingClover hills, Remember me?Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me?I remember you.
Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.