True Christian liberty, unlike the various "freedom" or "liberation" movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the "rights" we have.

Janie full of that oldest human longing - self - revelation.

... she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see ...

Imperfect, but Perfectly Loved

POTENTIAL IS A PRICELESS TREASURE, LIKE GOLD. ALL OF US HAVE GOLD HIDDEN WITHIN, BUT WE HAVE TO DIG TO GET IT OUT.

We should want Him more than anything. If we seek Him first, then all other things will be added to our lives.

Her head throbbed as though gremlins were ripping holes in her brain

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we...

"Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed."

It's fine, I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

I am stained with corrupt splendor, I am a code for obscure secrets, I am a being apart, I was born in decadence, and I live over the water. I am as different as possible from you, and yet I am not...

It is easier to prevent an illness than to cure one. Clean living is the best medicine.

It is never a mistake to say good - bye.

Yes, there what we would consider 'emergent circumstances.'

The Brotherhood and the Band of Bastards had to go try and make peace. And he had to go look his brother in the face. -

It was a farewell. Not a good-bye, but a fare... well. and he had the sense they would.

"Please," Eddie implored. "Not Lassiter. Anybody but Lassiter - he could be anywhere on the planet, doing anything."

And maybe there is greatness waiting for you - if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.

All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a...

hand. Care to explain

It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.

"I suppose," he said, his voice harsher than he had intended it to be, "you want marriage again." "No," she said quickly. "No, never that. Not again. Why would any woman willingly make herself the...

"Insults are only really effective," she said, "when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter."

It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own. He was going to new...

Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung...

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you...

Myron showered and threw on a pair of sweats. His pants had blood on them. His own. He remembered that old Seinfeld routine about laundry detergent commercials that talk about getting out bloodstains,...

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We