When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simpl...
MARY E. DEMUTH Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in...
MARY E. DEMUTH Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
MARY E. DEMUTH We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.
MARY E. DEMUTH As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, comm...
MARY E. DEMUTH Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures whe...
MARY E. DEMUTH When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.
MARY E. DEMUTH Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty ...
MARY E. DEMUTH Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't...
MARY E. DEMUTH I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.
MARY E. DEMUTH To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.
MARY E. DEMUTH Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.
MARY E. DEMUTH Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.
MARY E. DEMUTH When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.
MARY E. DEMUTH When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.
MARY E. DEMUTH Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from a...
MARY E. DEMUTH We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas,...
MARY E. DEMUTH Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.
MARY E. DEMUTH When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simpl...
MARY E. DEMUTH Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production...
MARY E. DEMUTH God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
MARY E. DEMUTH It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their bea...
MARY E. DEMUTH The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when li...
MARY E. DEMUTH We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey....
MARY E. DEMUTH Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.
MARY E. DEMUTH The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.
MARY E. DEMUTH We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.
MARY E. DEMUTH A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And s...
MARY E. DEMUTH We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
MARY E. DEMUTH We left runners on base in a few innings, but we kept it close in every game. It was great to play a...
BECKY DEMUTH We've been struggling a little on offense and she just stepped up and hit the ball well against the ...
BECKY DEMUTH We wish we were off to a better start, but we're playing better teams. We hope we can do what we did...
BECKY DEMUTH We won't play like we need to win (to make the NCAA tourney). We'll try to play with heart. We'll le...
JENNY DEMUTH Through the past few games, this team has definitely come together. When I was a freshman, that's wh...
JENNY DEMUTH We've proven we can play in front of big crowds, and we're going to have to do that in our next thre...
JENNY DEMUTH Our ball pressure on their guards was amazing, and our post play was tremendous. Overall, we just pl...
JENNY DEMUTH We changed up our defense more, our ball pressure on the guards was amazing. I think all around, we ...
JENNY DEMUTH I think we were just going in and executing our game plan, we're going to leave it on the floor. I d...
JENNY DEMUTH I think if we come out with the energy and emotion we had today, we can compete.
JENNY DEMUTH What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem ...
MARY E. PEARSON Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complet...
MARY E. BUELL Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they...
MARY E. PEARSON Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.
MARY E. PEARSON Of course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're...
MARY E. PEARSON It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
MARY E. PEARSON I walked up to Griz and poked him in the chest. "Let me make this perfectly clear to you. Though som...
MARY E. PEARSON I will find you.
In the farthest corner, I will find you.
MARY E. PEARSON The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is n...
MARY E. PEARSON Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in...
MARY E. PEARSON I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)
MARY E. PEARSON Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.
MARY E. PEARSON When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes ...
MARY E. PEARSON As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from th...
MARY E. PEARSON Observing and understanding are two different things.
MARY E. PEARSON Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?
MARY E. PEARSON Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
MARY E. PEARSON Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But n...
MARY E. PEARSON If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.
MARY E. PEARSON I felt something wet trickle down the side of my face. I reached up and swiped the salty wetness awa...
MARY E. PEARSON Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small,...
MARY E. PEARSON Don't be afraid, child,
The stories are always there.
MARY E. PEARSON We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosem...
MARY E. REED Do we allow unlimited visitation, or do we restrict numbers to protect a delicate ecosystem? Do we h...
MARY E. REED Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your hear...
MARY E. PEARSON The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.
MARY E. PEARSON The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels lik...
MARY E. PEARSON I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY