She had a horror of being one of those girls in movies who closes her eyes and puckers up while the boy sits back and smirks.
He managed not to disturb too much of the flower bed as he tamped soil over the Jaffa Cake box that had taken on the role of hamster coffin so well.
I want you to close your eyes and I’m going to feed you.
Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when God’s Realm would come. Jesus said, “God’s Realm won’t come just because you’re watching for it, and neither can people say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘There it is’, because God’s Realm is actually within you!
Human beings have been on the planet for about 200,000 years, but if you think about it, most of the wonders we identify with contemporary life came about in the past 200 years.
We’re going to be working together, so non-client dinners would be unprofessional.” I brought my mouth closer to hers, and our breaths mingled as I said quietly, “Let’s be unprofessional together, Annie.
My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors.
Walter Cronkite wasn’t representing a political ideology, or even discussing politics when my father watched the news as a teenager. He was discussing the news.
Just being alive is bad for the health,” he replies. “It always ends in death sooner or later.
Holy donut holes, Batman!
9But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.
Before curiosity kills it, the cat learns more of the world than a hundred uninquisitive dogs.
A reader is unsatisfied with the present and yearns for something more.
I am no atheist. I strongly believe in God and am always willing to pray for my material and spiritual progress. But for me, God is a very personal thing and prayer needs to be spoken silently in my heart.
It helps to think of your child as a stranger in a strange land, like a study-abroad student you are hosting long term and to whom you must, patiently and constantly, explain the land they’re visiting.
All I know is, one minute I’m ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next, I can’t wait to get away, I’m all over the place, slipping and sliding again.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something im-portant about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don’t feel it.
Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. 14Let all that you do be done with love.
Reason is the steering wheel. Emotion is the gas pedal.
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you to pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to... collect your pupils by compulsion?