#ness

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#carry #entertaining #fiction #good #larger

Although I'm not shy when I'm singing, I am whenever I hear applause. I don't know if you've noticed, but I giggle a lot on-stage. That's shyness. And the stage manager is always telling me to take a longer bow whenever I come off-stage. I still haven't learnt to do that properly. I see other artistes milking the applause, but I can't quite do it. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#always #am #applause #bow #come

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#becomes #business #day #definitely #done

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#bad #bad day #businessman #coming #day

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#carelessness #falsehood #intentionally #lying #more

Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem is “estrangement,” whose specific meaning of “separated from that to which one belongs” is most appropriate. ... For the monarchical model, sin is primarily disloyalty to the king, seen especially as disobedience to his laws. The metaphors used to express the Spirit model suggest something else. For the metaphor of God as lover, sin is unfaithfulness—that is, sin is going after other lovers. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#love #obedience #relationship #unfaithfulness #faith

If he's dead, I'll never forgive you." I suddenly felt cold and frail and horrible numb. Jason's reply was so soft that I almost missed it." I wont forgive myself, either. ↗

— Kathleen Peacock

#forgiveness

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. ↗

— Edward Irving

#grieves #hardness #heart #levity #manifest

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ↗

— Harold Kushner

#body #carry #feel #feeling #get

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#believing #business #figuring #give #hard