With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word.
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Related Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes GOITSEMANG SANDRA MVULA Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-f... WILLIAM SHATNER With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ... OMAR N. BRADLEY With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ... OMAR BRADLEY The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink. RACHEL L. SCHADE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Who says paper worlds Are an escape from what is real? As though the lives trapped in thei... ERIN HANSON The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly writt... MEGAN HART God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discip... JOYCE MEYER Is God present or is he absent? Maybe we can say now that in the center of our sadness for his absen... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN The ball is in his court. ... We're just waiting to get word of what his intentions are. ERIN MCLAUGHLIN I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there. J.R. WARD She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That... JOHN GRISHAM Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box... RAINBOW ROWELL Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon... ERIN MORGENSTERN There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simpl... PIPER PAYNE An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON Feast of the Holy Innocents The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is... A. W. TOZER But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev... ELLEN G. WHITE Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER It just happens that this national event is happening at the same time as the marathon. Its really e... JUSTIN PITTS What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN Ink drys, paper burns, but what is written in the soul will last an eternity. UNKNOWN To grow a lot more, Eric has to find a way to multiply himself. He needs to create not just managers... JAMES COLLINS The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the sa... BRIE LARSON The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what's in... VICTORIA OSTEEN The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but i... JAMES RANDI The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines wit... LUCY GREALY Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I ... JAZZ FEYLYNN The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in in... 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Life may be challenging... ERIC SAMUEL TIMM Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the m... GEORGE MULLER The University is already committed on paper to social justice. Sometimes the University does things... ARIANNE PETERSON In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it. LJUPKA CVETANOVA In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has alre... ROBERT GOOLRICK The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing... J.G. BALLARD It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its... JENNIFER ELISABETH It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the br... 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