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I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.

Geraldine Brooks

I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.

Tags: regeneration, renewal

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser...

Geraldine Brooks

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser...

Tags: regeneration, renewal

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Geraldine Brooks may refer to:

Geraldine Brooks (actress) (1925–1977), American stage, television and film performer
Geraldine Brooks (writer) (born 1955), Australian journalist and novelist

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.

Geraldine Brooks

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.

Tags: legalism, regeneration, renewal

As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with military commanders and more with the engineers and overseers who were fanning out throughout the land,...

Geraldine Brooks

As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with military commanders and more with the engineers and overseers who were fanning out throughout the land,...

Tags: defensiveness, fragmentation, leadership

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know...

Geraldine Brooks

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know...

Tags: distraction, exposition, preaching, priorities, prophecy

From Caleb's Crossing--This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather th...

Geraldine Brooks

From Caleb's Crossing--This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather th...

Tags: eileen granfors, family

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verand...

Geraldine Brooks

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verand...

Tags: cool, today, sleep, waiting

Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn’t been cleaned in weeks. Nobody had noticed, because nobody who mattered...

Geraldine Brooks

Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn’t been cleaned in weeks. Nobody had noticed, because nobody who mattered...

Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary lives.

Geraldine Brooks

Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary lives.

Another general would have let them go and been glad of it. But he saw that if they secured that high ground they might regroup and come at us again, this time with their archers positioned to advanta...

Geraldine Brooks

Another general would have let them go and been glad of it. But he saw that if they secured that high ground they might regroup and come at us again, this time with their archers positioned to advanta...

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Geraldine Brooks

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Tags: insight, mind, reading, tastes

Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only. And so distant, up there in the sky. I do not have to look so far. I can see my skygod clear en...

Geraldine Brooks

Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only. And so distant, up there in the sky. I do not have to look so far. I can see my skygod clear en...

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

Geraldine Brooks

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

Tags: encouragement, identity, patriotism, worship

[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story."What do you mean?"Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the s...

Geraldine Brooks

[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story."What do you mean?"Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the s...

Tags: politics, religion

Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And

Geraldine Brooks

Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And

When she thought of the letter beit, it was not of the thickness of lines or the exactitude of spaces. It was of mysteries: the number two, the dual; the house, the house of God on earth. 'They will b...

Geraldine Brooks

When she thought of the letter beit, it was not of the thickness of lines or the exactitude of spaces. It was of mysteries: the number two, the dual; the house, the house of God on earth. 'They will b...

Tags: transcendence, words

I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other that night, there...

Geraldine Brooks

I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other that night, there...

Tags: love

One in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.

Geraldine Brooks

One in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

Geraldine Brooks

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

Tags: heritage, leadership, statecraft

Women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.

Geraldine Brooks

Women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.