Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
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Related ...to hope for death by his side, and for one brief moment in which to tell him that her love-whole ... BARONESS ORCZY ...to hope for death by his side, and for one brief moment in which to tell him that her love-whole ... BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY Their gazes met. His eyes swept her in a velvet caress, uncertainty stamped on his features. The nig... TERESA MEDEIROS He would not kiss her mouth or allow her to caress him in tenderness. He broke his fierce silence on... TERESA MEDEIROS The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.' There was a... PATRICK ROTHFUSS We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho... HENRY B. EYRING We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His b... C.S. LEWIS The Thief and His Mother
A boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to... AESOP Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with h... EDITH WHARTON As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to... ANONYMOUS You’re here!” She repeated, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his hips.... AMY LANE To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long ... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha... CHARLES DICKENS His lips brushed over hers. She let out a sigh of relief and joy and pleasure. He pulled her tighter... B.J. DANIELS Before she could stop her hands, they reached for him, as though they existed for no other reason th... RENEE AHDIEH If I had stayed human, how could you have remained with me as a lifemate?” She pushed her rounded ... CHRISTINE FEEHAN Not only had he wanted her in his personal territory, he’d just wanted her with him. Earlier, her ... NALINI SINGH She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her ... V. THEIA Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger... CECIL ALEXANDER Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger... CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER He cupped his hand around her cheek, and she marveled at how perfectly his palm fit her cheek. His f... SUMMER HINES Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesu... JONATHAN MARTIN He is a great athlete and it shows in his play. We have a lot of confidence in him and his ability t... JEFF WEINER Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... STIEG LARSSON When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his ... DAVID ANTIN If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comf... C.S. LEWIS His fingers trailed a path on her skin down her back. “Have I found a pleasure spot?” he asked w... MARY MORGAN His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; t... CASSANDRA CLARE All who believe and obey the glorious gospel of God, all who are true and faithful and overcome the ... BRUCE R. MCCONKIE God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakne... MATT CHANDLER Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him,... NADIA BOULANGER She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent's tongue. Tonight she was not... SHAKUITA JOHNSON All of a sudden, she was there, breaking away from the little group of women and running toward him.... BONNIE DEE She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd kn... KRISTIN CASHORE Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER Its ground: God, by whose goodness ... JULIANA OF NORWICH The stranger astonished him more and more by her dignified and serious manner. It's usually the case... LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he h... ALICE MILLER The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the p... FRANCIS SCOTT KEY They figured him out. Josh is not one who creates his own shot. His shots have been created off of o... DICK BENNETT In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and ... THOMAS MERTON she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the... PAULO COELHO There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in his) who enjoins charity or goodness or... QURAN God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable ... JOHN CROWDER It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN The little group before her finally moved on and Sarah took its place, standing before Tom like he w... BONNIE DEE What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put... JAMES JOYCE The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his... BASIL HUME The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his... BASIL C. HUME He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! ARTHUR MILLER All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrappe... D.H. LAWRENCE Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in ... NADIA BOULANGER She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortab... STEPHANIE BOND He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON The world eclipses and it’s just her and him. No it’s just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expos... STEFAN EMUNDS He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he... LISA STEVENS He had a satisfying wholeness about him, American good looks like a baseball player's- level shoulde... DIANA ABU-JABER She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for... WHITNEY OTTO Unable to hold back a second longer, Blake reached out and cradled the side of her face, savoring th... KAYLEA CROSS And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst su... QUR'AN An agnostic lay dying. He called his weeping child to his bedside and asked her to read to him the o... UNKNOWN His times were a little off, but in his events there really isn't competition for him in our confere... ERIN LOWE The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates hi... HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been as... JANE AUSTEN He pulled her close kissing her mouth taking her by surprise. He stepped back passion smoldering in ... AMANDA STEPHAN Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live." "Did she?" Cha... PATRICIA BRIGGS Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN He who regards another's wife as his mother, the wealth that does not belong to him as a lump of mud... CHANAKYA He is struck by her overview of his situation. It is as if she has understood his life. He is taken ... HILARY MANTEL He came very close to playing for Notre Dame. We offered him (a scholarship), we wanted him, but I j... GREG MATTISON Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a ma... CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His gre... JOSHUA HARRIS His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It wa... ALICE SEBOLD Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair besid... JAMES JOYCE Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le... D.H. LAWRENCE From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule," he whispered. "That's very impressive. When he rules... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose.... J.R. WARD Along the way, my Heavenly Father has taught me that the fruit of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, pat... JEREMY CAMP The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs... CLARK GABLE The scene unfolded before him as though he were a ghost. His mother stood on the raised stump,... JEAN M. GRANT On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. ... AMIT CHAUDHURI It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ... D.H. LAWRENCE He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea... CASSANDRA CLARE He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the... AYN RAND The Awakening Land" p628 A strange, uneasy feeling ran over him. If he had been wrong about his moth... CONRAD RICHTER When she found a place of her own and packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him... IAN MCEWAN There was no escaping his crown. Or his father, who would behead Sorscha, burn her, and scatter her ... SARAH J. MAAS The Mole and His Mother
A mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure tha... AESOP But if he is angry at the world for doing him harm, why does he take it out on his loving partner? C... SUSAN WEITZMAN He called to her primal side; the ancient aspect of her animal self that wanted to submit. It wanted... DIANNA HARDY I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you." He closed his eyes. And when he opened th... ELIZABETH HOYT God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His co... MOTHER TERESA Owen folded his arms around Morgan to steady her when she crashed into him, and was enveloped by her... KRISTEN CASEY As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God an... MOTHER THERESA There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationsh... DONNA LYNN HOPE He'll ask her for a kiss and bend his head in front of her and she'll actually lean over and very ge... SUSAN WEATHERBY It helped him to go to the minors. He went down, worked on his game and got his confidence. In his r... BRENDAN WITT You're rather good at this, aren't you?" And she didn't just mean his reading of Gerrard. Vane'... STEPHANIE LAURENS
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