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“When we learn to respond to each other rather than react, we will move much more quickly in our conflict toward resolution and reconciliation. Reactions only stoke the fires of conflict; responses, particularly godly ones, help us snuff out the conflict.”
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
“Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.”
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.” The”
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
“Then as she looked up in his face, he smiled most sweetly and said something he had never said before, "You have one real beauty, Much-Afraid, you have such trustful eyes. Trust is one of the much beautiful things in the world. When I look at the trust in your eyes I find you more beautiful to look upon than many a lovely queen.”
― Hinds' Feet on High Places
― Hinds' Feet on High Places
“I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth—so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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