“When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Like two lost souls, we fall asleep in each other's arms, hoping to find ourselves once again.”
@darlenedeluca.bsky.socialIt's Book Quote Wednesday! Today's word is "push." Lane finding a spark . . . #bookquotes #romance
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.”
@anaiskireiholm.bsky.social"How could I ever have fitted?"
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Henry narrowed his eyes at me. "You going somewhere?""Lacrosse field trip," I said. "I enjoy whacking the hell out of people with mallets.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Divinity dwells in thee. To activate the power, you must connect with the spirit daily.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. “I’ll be damned.”“Possibly. But not today, I think.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“You'd claim me?" he asked, hopeful but cautious.She nodded once. "Because I'd never set a monster like you loose in the world.”
