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In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he__ unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Those who speak of man's "free will," and insist upon his inherent power to either accept or reject the Saviour, do but voice their ignorance of the real condition of Adam's fallen children.

What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.

Most locals knew who Della Lee was. She waitressed at a greasy spoon called Eat and Run, which was tucked far enough outside the town limits that the ski-crowd tourists didn__ see it. She haunted bars at night. She was probably in her late thirties, maybe ten years older than Josey, and she was rough and flashy and did whatever she wanted__o reasonable explanation required. __ella Lee Baker, what are you doing in my closet?_ __ou shouldn__ leave your window unlocked. Who knows who could get in?_ Della Lee said, single-handedly debunking the long-held belief that if you dotted your...

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. __od do this, God don__ do that._ I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain that we point them to Queen Victoria, who has carefully reared a large family, while considering and signing...

Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.

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Enough," he said; "the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." "True - true," I replied;

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn__ respond to our needs and requests.

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, __ome to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest_ (Matthew 11:28, NASB). The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with your wandering mind. Come messy. What does it feel like to be weary? You have trouble concentrating. The problems of the day are like claws in your brain. You feel pummeled by life. What does heavy-laden feel like? Same thing. You have so many problems you don__ even know where to start. You can__ do life on your own anymore. Jesus wants you to come to him...