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"She had a grocer's faith in books, they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts."
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"When you start putting the Word into practice in your everyday life, it becomes your understanding and you will overcome any challenge by its power."
"How do you handle, your time and God's time? Does it mean that God can tell lies or that He doesn't know what He is telling you? Can God deceive a man? My answer to you is NO!But what happens if your time and His time doesn't agree?My bible says in Galatians 6:9 do not be weary in doing good; for in due season you shall reap, if you faint not."
"It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country."
"God's grace is sufficient for us to overcome any situation."
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"It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it."
"Though I've never met a teacher who was not happy in retirement, I rarely meet one who thinks that their teaching life was not a grand way to spend a human life. The unhappy ones are the young ones, those who must teach in public schools when the whole nation seems at war with the very essence of teaching."
"I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy."
"The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly."
"It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean."
"A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she's tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life."
"It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted a forehead of stunning gold above the horizon, lifted straight out of filigreed, light-intoxicated clouds that lay on the skyline in attendant veils. Behind us, the sun was setting in a simultaneous congruent withdrawal and the river turned to flame in a quiet duel of gold....The new gold of moon astonishing and ascendant, he depleted gold of sunset extinguishing itself in the long westward slide, it was the old dance of days in the Carolina marshes, the breathtaking death of days before the eyes of children, until the sun vanished, its final signature a ribbon of bullion strung across the tops of water oaks."
"The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself."
"In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice."
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