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Jeremiah Quotes

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“There have been other girls. But they weren't her.”
Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

Mohamad Jebara
“When the Qur’an critically evaluates the individual behavior of certain Jews, Christians, and pagans, it does so because these individuals serve as models for both what to do and not to do. Compared to the standards of harsh prophetic chastisement found in the revelations of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, the Qur’an is a gentle critic—despite attempts by some translators to heighten the tension.”
Mohamad Jebara, The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste, Share the joy of reading with all you meet. Both young and Old. Especially the children.”
charlws Swindoll

J. Michael Straczynski
“I am Captain Iron and I will use my powers only for good, never for evil.
I will fight injustice wherever I find it.
I will help those who cannot help themselves.
I am a spirit of justice and I am a spirit of vengeance and I will kick the ass of the unrighteous.
I will be gentle, for the world is hard and I will be caring, for the world is harsh and I will be strong and I will endure pain and I will die bravely and I will make it all better again.
So that the children will never have to look up in pain and wonder why they lost so much.
Why so many had to die.
Why they are still even alive because ...
because no one should ever have to ask that question.”
J. Michael Straczynski

Joni Eareckson Tada
“Tada references the accusation in Jeremiah that the people have forsaken God as Living Water by remembering a hiking trip from her younger days. Reaching a clear stream at the end of her trip, she emptied her canteen of the warm, metallic-tasting water and filled up on fresh water.”
Joni Eareckson Tada, A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

(Jeremiah 29:13 NIV)”
Bible, New International Version Single Column Text Bible: Burgundy

“It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.”
Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

Cassandra Clare
“There is truth to be learned here, if you are patient enough to listen to it.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“For I know the plans that I have for you,� declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. (Jer 29:11)”
Jeremiah, The Book of Jeremiah: With Explanatory Notes and Appendices, by H. Linton

“There is in my heart as it were a burning fire
Shut up in my bones,
And I am weary with holding it in,
And I cannot
Jeremiah 20:9”
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Walter Brueggemann
“It is the work of the poet to imagine YHWH out beyond old stereotypes and to show us that the God of Israel, at the very moment of risk, is a God of healing, transformative, covenantal fidelity.”
Walter Brueggemann, Returning from the Abyss: Pivotal Moments in the Book of Jeremiah

Walter Brueggemann
“...doing economic justice for the vulnerable in generous, intentional ways, is communion with God.”
Walter Brueggemann, Returning from the Abyss: Pivotal Moments in the Book of Jeremiah

“Stāte super viās et interrogāte dē sēmitīs antīquīs que sit via bona et ambulāte in eā et inveniētis et refrīgerium animābus vestrīs etc.”
Jeremias 6:16