Melissa from Breath of Life is starting a new carnival today: The Week in Words. The idea is simple. Participants post quotes from whatever reading they did that week — any quotes that stood out to them, touched them, made them laugh, whatever. And the source can be any kind of reading — blogs, magazines, books. As long as it’s something you read this week, it counts.
Here are a few quotes that caught my eye this week.
Victory in anything, from war to football, is founded in training and discipline. Nothing worthwhile is gained by sloth and wishful thinking. It’s not the will to win that counts, but the will to prepare to win.
– James Scott Bell in The Art of War for Writers
There is something better than settling for a vague, diminished, distant understanding of who Jesus is, what he has done, and why it matters. It is seeing him more clearly and following him more closely…There is something better than expecting to get everything we’re hoping for here and now. It is a willingness to wait for all our deepest longings to be fulfilled in heaven…There is something better than pursuing our own dreams of security and passion and significance. It is finding our security and passion and significance in God’s dreams for us.
– Nancy Guthrie in Hoping for Something Better
(a study of Hebrews I just began with a good friend)
“Catching a murderer isn’t like recovering a stolen bike,” [Encylcopedia Brown] said. “A murderer can stop a person’s growth in a terrible hurry.”
– Donald J. Sobol in Encyclopedia Brown and the
Case of the Dead Eagles
(which I’m reading as part of the Children’s Classics Mystery Challenge)
Visit Breath of Life to see other participants or to share your own quotes from this week!
I bet I know who you’re doing Hoping with…because a mutual friend told me she was starting that study with someone
Great quotes! Thanks for playing. Hope you’ll be back!
Fun! I’ll definitely be doing this sometime, because I love quotes.
And that Melissa is a smart one.
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“A murderer can stop a person’s growth in a terrible hurry.”
LOL!
LOVE that Encyclopedia Brown quote!
Love this meme.
Your first quote hit me right over the head. LOL. Thanks for that. I think. LOL.
Hoping for Something Better is fantastic! Highly recommended!
Oh, I loved Encyclopedia Brown as a girl!
What a great idea! Being the readers that we are, I think it’s great!
Super idea! Thanks for letting us know.
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I have not thought of Encyclopedia Brown in forever! Good quotes!
Hm, this would probably be a good meme for me; I just jotted down 2 pages of quotes from a book I’m reading. And my eyes caught a few more this morning from a different book. Good idea to share what’s speaking to us . . . thanks for the HT!
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I loved the Encylcopedia Brown series when I was young. It has been a long time since I have read one. I wonder if my library has the series? Hmm.
That looks like an interesting meme with a pretty picture.