November 2011
October 2011
“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes a loosening of restraints. Women in our society are bound. In generations past, the constriction was accomplished by corsets and girdles…. Women today are bound by fears, by oppression, and by stereotypes that depict large women as ungainly, unfeminine, and unworthy of appreciation…. Above all, women must control themselves, must be careful, for to relax might lead to the worst possible consequence: being fat.”
—“Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley
“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”
—― Khaled Hosseini
“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.”
— Henri F. Amiel
“I refuse to believe that my life is worthless. I will not believe in unbelief anymore. I will not—I will simply walk away from unbelief. I refuse to believe the lies anymore that my life is of no value; that I will never amount to anything, that I will never accomplish anything in the kingdom of God. That is how the devil keeps half the church—or more—just sitting in their seats and quiet, when God has something spectacular that He wants to do through your life. He doesn’t want you when you’re full, He wants you when you’re empty. He doesn’t you when you’re strong, He wants you when you’re weak. He doesn’t want you when you’re something, He wants you when you’re nothing. Because He is the One who takes nothing and makes something out of it for His Name’s sake and His glory.”
—Carter Conlon
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