Davis Bunn Quotes

#1. Go into all the world and preach the gospel.' " Martha nodded slowly. "So the challenge is to do that without getting in the way of the message." Alban added, "He must increase. I must decrease.

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#2. For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

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#3. He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

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#4. Lived from day to day, his testimony of the risen Lord would ring true, that others who would accompany Alban on his journey would bear strong witness wherever they went.

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#5. God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

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#6. Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

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#7. Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven.

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#8. Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

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#9. Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

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#10. I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman," Erica reminded herself aloud. "And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man."
Lavinia laughed at that. "Whenever has a woman's heart listened to her head?

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#11. Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others.

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#12. His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

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#13. I was thinking ... "
"We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

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#14. The distance had been evaporated by humor

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#15. Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

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#16. He was like a sheep being led to be killed. He was quiet, as a lamb is quiet while its wool is being cut; he never opened his mouth. He was shamed and was treated unfairly. He died without children to continue his family. His life on earth has ended.

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#17. He had been privy to much, and blind to even more.

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#18. A man of power is a prize bargainer. Whatever he offers you, he will take more in return. Your challenge is to know yourself. Give only what you can, while remaining steadfast to your own truths.

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#19. It is a soldier's right to complain, his only defense against orders not to his liking.

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#20. Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward.

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#21. Halfway back up the hillside, Cecilia reached behind her, and it seemed the most natural thing in the world for Brian to lean forward to take her hand.

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#22. Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

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#23. I need ... I need your God. I have watched you and ... and you have such joy. Such peace. Both you and Zoe. How I long for it. But, Julia, I cannot go to your meeting to find it. Your father would be very angry. He might disown both of us.

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#24. There's no debt. There never has been. We are friends.

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#25. Philip's words. Though the story was by now well known to him, still it held a powerful resonance. What he saw and heard was not merely a retelling of the Lord's coming, but rather the fulfillment of words written centuries before by their most revered prophet.

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#26. The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.

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#27. Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to keep up.

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#28. It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

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#29. He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.

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