He thought, I got wings on my eyes, and the thought was so odd and yet so pleasing to him that he felt suddenly that he was immensely special, that there could be no one like him in the world.
Deborah TreismanTag: kindlehighlight
There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.
Reuben A. TorreyTag: kindlehighlight
I was just trying to remove a stain; I made a bigger stain.
Deborah TreismanTag: kindlehighlight
Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.
Tom ClancyTag: kindlehighlight
I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.
Tom ClancyTag: kindlehighlight
Cooking wasn’t so bad, I thought. In fact, it was a lot like sex. Sometimes it didn’t seem like such a good idea in the beginning, but then after you got into it …
Janet EvanovichTag: kindlehighlight
He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.
Harlan CobenTag: kindlehighlight
It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.
Rebecca GoldsteinTag: kindlehighlight
how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted to completely godless contexts with little of the impact lost—and when he had also, almost as an afterthought, included as an appendix thirty-six arguments for the existence of God, with rebuttals, his claim being that the most thorough demolition of these arguments would make little difference to the felt qualities of religious experience,
Rebecca GoldsteinTag: kindlehighlight
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.
Ian RankinTag: kindlehighlight
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