T. S. Elliot Quotes
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!
No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.
When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.
A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.
I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.
I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.
