Pensively Smiling Quotes & Sayings

Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself
over and over
not to do it. — Barry Lyga

Due to their deep conviction of the sovereignty of God, the Word of God was taken very seriously by Calvinists. It became the unconditional norm for faith and life to the believer. The Divine injunction not to add or take away has been scrupulously observed by Calvinism. Thus, a Calvinistic ethic was developed with its high theism. Because God was held to be the absolute sovereign for man's life, it became simply a question of determining the will of God from His Word. Calvinistic ethics is not a system of opinion, but an attempt to make the will of God as revealed in the Bible the authoritative guide for social as well as personal direction. — Henry R. Van Til

The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?
Here endeth the lesson. — Kelly Link

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me. — Martha Wainwright

You pretended to hate him because you were a coward. But you eventually loved him, and he is a part of you now, because you have since grown brave. — N.K. Jemisin

I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves. — Jennifer Garner