christian-fiction

They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.

The Americans_ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.

We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize how frail we truly are._-Skyla (from Twiceborn)

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

Teach them the shame that tells the lie, __ am unforgivable,_ when the truth is, __ feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control._ Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.

We__e spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that__ precisely how we did it __y making it lower case.

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

I figured I got the prettiest, sweetest, smartest wife ever to be," he said softly.

To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished.

Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the air, before dissolving into sunlight.

When we decided to move West, I worried about how to defend my family and my stock from Indians, but I never worried about inheriting one!_--from Prairie Grace when Georgia's father Thomas realizes gravely ill Gray Wolf has been left at their doorstep

Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. __hameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people._--from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans

The schoolroom . . . Olivia had always adored its confines and endless horizons. The melodious purr of the teacher's voice rising up and down her lessons like a musical score. And the sight of book spines--black, blue, green--lined up side by side like London townhouses. Each leather rectangle a gift waiting to be opened and explored and savored.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse: "To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?

Sometimes I wonder which is worse: To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?

Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ!- Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRISTAs Constantinople falls.

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we__e already got them in Hell.