Glenda Bixler > Glenda's Quotes

“For many of us practicing Americanized Christianity, we grew up being fed a list of things that “true Christians” believe—and I’m convinced that all those things were rooted in a fear of God.”
― Benjamin L. Corey, Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith

“I believe Jesus was referring to the necessity of unlearning all those broken ways of thinking that drain the life and faith from us. It’s as if Jesus is inviting us to take everything we’ve ever believed, dismantle it, and start over with something better.”
― Benjamin L. Corey, Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith

“Let me be direct: the Bible says that God did not give us a spirit of fear, but one of power and love.7 If this is true, which I believe it is, it means that fear-based faith is not of God. It’s not from God,”
― Benjamin L. Corey, Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith

“People say that Jesus speaks through our pastor. But I never knew Jesus to show anyone so much hatred.”
― Russell Brooks, Jam Run - (Eddie Barrow 2) - An International Crime Thriller

“many ways Jesus would have been a horrible politician because political power jockeys—both secular and religious—were the kind of people he didn’t play nice with. However, Jesus would have been an awesome politician if one considers the way he answered questions; interviewing him would have been torture for even the most seasoned White House correspondent.”
― Benjamin L. Corey, Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith

“Your job is to see what everyone else has seen, but to think what no one else has thought.”
― Benjamin L. Corey, Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith

“Instead, Jesus is the one who says, “Just keep walking toward me, and I will help you increase your capacity to receive and to give love.”
― Benjamin L. Corey, Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith

“Alone, Eve wondered how anyone managed to work in a room without a window. Then she wondered, with all of those books … Maybe they were his window.”
― J.D. Robb, Golden in Death

“She shrugged. “I could write a book of sayings that should actually be sayings if people didn’t keep killing each other.”
― J.D. Robb, Golden in Death

“closed the door behind them and rested my head against the cool, painted wood. No way I would be able to focus on my work anymore while Olinski’s and my mother’s words danced together in my head. A tango in which the roses were all thorns.”
― Sue Minix, The Murderous Type

“Avery had spent too much time in D.C. to be surprised, but the clay feet of America’s political leaders still hurt.”
― Stacey Abrams, Rogue Justice

“it, there’s really no future and no past. There’s only now, and that’s where we should concentrate on living.”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“get a kick out of some of the genre fiction. Especially cop stuff.” “Do you have a favorite writer?” “Dozens of them. Did you come over here to ask me about my tastes in literature?”
― Scott Pratt, Injustice For All

“He’ll lie, Brother Dillard. He’ll lie like a politician. And when he does, we’ll know it.”
― Scott Pratt, Reasonable Fear

“This dumbing down of the American culture is a pity, isn’t it? The print tabloids have been around for a long time, but now we have tabloid television and reality television and online news organizations. There seems to be an endless supply of meaninglessness and sensationalism that has turned out to be quite profitable for the purveyors. It doesn’t say”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“I’d been a staunch opponent of the death penalty early in my career, but as I’d aged, my attitude had changed, largely because I’d come to believe that some of the people I’d represented and prosecuted over the years were both incorrigible and unsalvageable. I’d seen so much violence, so much cruelty, and so little regard for basic human decency that I could no longer summon empathy for people like Ernest Shanks.”
― Scott Pratt, Conflict of Interest

“No, it isn’t. I guess it used to be a date, but not anymore. The whole… I don’t know, I guess you’d call it protocol, of dating has changed. First you talk, then you date, then you agree to be exclusive, then you become boyfriend and girlfriend, and then you’re in a relationship.” “Ah, I get it,” I said. “It isn’t really official until it’s announced on Facebook.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“I found it, Roscoe,” Charlie whispered. “I found Prometheus’s fire.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“People can handle the truth, Griffin. I don’t understand why politicians and government officials can’t grasp that concept.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“Crime was always a growth industry.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“This was probably the hardest part of my job: convincing the unreasonable to be reasonable.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“But what could I do about it? Life seemed to be random chaos on top of random chaos, dragging you by the short hairs.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Maybe the point was not to show life how much power it really had.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“police reports were detailed, but like all police reports, they were filled with so many grammatical and spelling mistakes and confusing descriptions that it made you want to tear your hair out. I wondered if it’d be that hard to set up an English class at the POST academy to train officers on the difference between “meat” and “meet”—unless two suspects actually did “meat” at a house on State Street and “meat” was some new sexual act that I hadn’t learned about yet.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Fairness is laughable in our criminal justice system, isn’t it? I completely forgot, silly me.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Relationships, the ones that last, don’t start with good looks and sex. They start with friendships. And you are the best friend I’ve ever had. I’m your soul mate, not him.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“You’ve screwed up is what you’ve done. You’ve been running around talking to every reporter in the country, you’ve been on television, on the radio, in papers and magazines, and you’ve backed yourself into a corner. You don’t give a damn about the truth at this”
― Scott Pratt, Due Process

“But never, not once in my life, had I envisioned someone burning a cross in my front yard.”
― Scott Pratt, Due Process

“Assault rifles and burning crosses. It was a hell of a night.”
― Scott Pratt, Due Process

“Hope was a best friend that sometimes stabbed you in the back.”
― Carolyn Arnold, Her Final Breath