Overcharges Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Defend the Hope When Peter commanded these believers to give a defense, what were they supposed to defend? Traditional apologists are almost unanimous here. They say the first order of business is "reasoning for the existence of God."116 Craig says we are to defend the plausibility of God's existence as being more likely than not.117 That is not at all what Peter was saying in 1 Peter 3:15. Rather, he was commanding all Christians to give a defense for "the hope" that was in them. And what was their "hope"? It was not the plausibility of God's existence as being more likely than not. Their hope was in Christ. — Clifford B. McManis

Have you come to save me at last, Aelin Galathynius? — Sarah J. Maas

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions. — Virgilia Peterson

And then come September, they fell back in step as if they'd never missed a beat. That, Peter figured, was the very definition of a best friend. — Jodi Picoult

A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults. — Marcus Aurelius

She didn't know it, but she'd saved his life. In the darkest moment when he'd wanted nothing more than death, she'd appeared and given him a reason to get up each morning. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I would dream of birds and flora, beasts and cave dwellers. Every childhood night was a broken night. My sister escaped. For a while, my brother did too (extraordinarily). — Abigail George

I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance. — Renee O'Connor

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun

Both the imagination and the architecture are infinite. — Aleksandra Mizielinska

Ye'll ken the Declaration of Arbroath, will ye? Four hundred years since, it was our sires, our grandsires, who put their hands to these words: ... for as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule." He stopped to steady his voice, then went on. "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. — Diana Gabaldon

As if it were a point of honor - which, indeed, a point of art often is. — Vladimir Nabokov