"Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word."

--

Jerry Bridges

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sanctification Quotes

“The money will go but the trophies will always be there.”
“Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.”

Source : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.76, Penguin
“Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.”
“I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2006). “Belle Ruin”, New Amer Library
“Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.”
“A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.”
“He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck. "He only stuttered eight times." "That's what I mean.”

Source : Anna Gavalda (2006). “Hunting and Gathering”
“I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.”

Source : August Wilson (1997). “Seven Guitars”, p.10, Penguin

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