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My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.
Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.
You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.
To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.
Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.
When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.
We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.
Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.
A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.
Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have something to write about.
Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.
The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.
Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.
Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.
God doesn't come to kill, to steal or to destroy. That's the enemy. God comes to give abundant life. Know your God so you don't get confused.
We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.
It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.
I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.
I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.
I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.
I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'.
I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.
The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.
If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.
Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It’s the means of protection. It’s the means of joy. It’s the means to finding God’s best in our lives.
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.
Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.
The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.
Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list.
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.
As a child I experiences everything in a childish way... I thought I was experiencing a kind of warmth and a kind of embracing love as a God.
And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.
Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?