Jessica > Jessica's Quotes

“I don't see why you two can't get along."
"It is a personality issue," Rathenridge muttered.
Dentin looked at him. No emotion, no reaction, simply bland observation. "Yours?”
― Rachel Rossano, Duty

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“You pull a pistol on me and insult me? What else do you do? Steal candy from babies?”
― Jack Lewis Baillot, Abolished Impracticality

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Love is a great beautifier.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Let us be elegant or die!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.”
― Madame de de Lafayette

“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.”
― Tom Hiddleston

“Without needing told, without Jacob's lead, Akando dropped to his knees and lunged into the throne room of Christ.”
― Willowy Whisper, Only Children Chase Sawdust

“I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Contentment with earthly goods is the mark of a saint; contentment with our spiritual state is a mark of inward blindness.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous

“Pray on, fight on, sing on. Do not underrate anything God may have done for you heretofore. Thank God for everything up to this point, but do not stop here. Press on into the deep things of God. Insist upon tasting the profounder mysteries of redemption. Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. If you thus “follow after,” heaven will surely be opened to you and you will, with Ezekiel, see visions of God.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous

“God’s people have turned to the amusements of the world to try to squeeze a bit of juice out of them for the relief of their dry and joyless hearts. “Gospel” boogie singing now furnishes for many persons the only religious joy they know. Others wipe their eyes tenderly over “gospel” movies, and a countless number of amusements flourish everywhere, paid for by the consecrated tithes of persons who ought to know better. Our teachers took away our right to be happy in God and the human heart wreaked its terrible vengeance by going on a fleshly binge from which the evangelical Church will not soon recover, if indeed it ever does. For multitudes of professed Christians today the Holy Spirit is not a necessity. They have learned to cheer their hearts and warm their hands at other fires. And scores of publishers and various grades of “producers” are waxing fat on their delinquency.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous

“Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous

“Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Religious acts done out of low motives are twice evil, evil in themselves and evil because they are done in the name of God. This is equivalent to sinning in the name of the sinless One, lying in the name of the One who cannot lie and hating in the name of the One whose nature is love.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous

“We must divorce Chocolate and Disobedience, and marry Faith and Heroism.”
― C.T. Studd, The Chocolate Soldier: Heroism: The Lost Chord of Christianity

“All these being men of war came with a perfect heart to make Jesus King over all the world. They were all mighty men of valor for the war! He that was least was equal to a hundred, and the greatest to a thousand! They were not of double heart! Their faces were like the faces of lions! They were as swift as the roes upon the mountains (to do their Lord's commands)! Ye sought in time past, for Jesus to be King over you. NOW, THEN, DO IT (Compare 1 Chronicles 12:8, 33, 38, and 2 Samuel 3:17-18).”
― C.T. Studd, The Chocolate Soldier: Heroism: The Lost Chord of Christianity

“As A. J. Swoboda so beautifully said, “Sabbath is a scheduled weekly reminder that we are not what we do; rather, we are who we are loved by.”
― Jon Tyson, Beautiful Resistance: The Joy of Conviction in a Culture of Compromise

“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.”
― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“It is not a light thing to be called “a friend of God”!  It doubtless cost Abraham many tears, and hours of conflict as “against hope” he “believed in hope” that God would fulfil His word.  It cost Moses much to stand unflinchingly true to God in the face of Israel’s sufferings and Pharaoh’s parleying.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, Face to Face: Glimpses into the Inner Life of Moses the Man of God

“Would that we had learnt thus to be God’s ambassadors, and to be so self-effaced while delivering the message, that the souls to whom we are sent know they have to deal with God, and not with His messengers.  Alas! it is to be feared that many of us have scarcely learnt the first elements of spiritual service.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, Face to Face: Glimpses into the Inner Life of Moses the Man of God

“Ignorance of God and of His heart and His written Word, lie at the bottom of much aimless prayer.”
― Jessie Penn-Lewis, Face to Face: Glimpses into the Inner Life of Moses the Man of God

“the terrain was lush, like the area he was used to. Buffalo grass rippled in a welcome breeze that met them from the north. Scrub and rabbit brush, hiding places for quail and jackrabbit, dotted the flat stretch of prairie.”
― Naomi McCullough, Blood Heritage

“Sheriff Lewis’s voice rang out again to the crowd, his stance one of calm authority. “You can come to court and state your case tomorrow, but as the law in this town, I’m telling you there won’t be any necktie party here.”
― Naomi McCullough, Blood Heritage

“Don’t try me, Bill. My deputies and I will use force if necessary.” He gestured outside the circle, where several men sat on horseback, guns across their laps.”
― Naomi McCullough, Blood Heritage

“Boy, there are a few wonders in this world, and one of them is how you are still alive.”
― Naomi McCullough, Blood Heritage