It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
It could be any of a billion Gods. It could be God of the Martians or of the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri. The chance of its being a particular God, Yahweh, the God of Jesus, is vanishingly small - at the least, the onus is on you to demonstrate why you think that's the case.
Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.
In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.
Right," I scoffed, "Alpha Yam Ergo. " Adrian nodded solemnly. "A very old and prestigious society. " "I've never heard of them," said the girl who'd claimed the first shirt. "They don't let many people in," he said. In white paint, he wrote his fake fraternity's initials: AYE. "Isn't that what pirates say?" asked one of the girls. "Well, the Alpha Yams have nautical origins," he explained. To my horror he began painting a pirate skeleton riding a motorcycle. "Oh, no," I groaned. "Not the tattoo. " "It's our logo," he said.
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him. . . . As all our knowledge must take rise from the fear of God, so it must tend to it as its perfection and centre. Those know enough who know how to fear God, who are careful in every thing to please Him and fearful of offending Him in any thing; this is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.
God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha. ' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.
Um, Faythe?” Marc reached for my arm, and a small grin turned up one corner of his beautiful mouth. “As my first official piece of advice to the new Alpha, let me suggest that you put on some pants. And maybe a shirt. ” His grin grew and pulled me closer to whisper in my ear, while Jace watched us stiffly from across the room. “While the look definitely works for me, I’m thinking the other Alphas might take you more seriously if you dress the part.
I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet,. . . The White T.
If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha
So you're Zach. " Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend. " The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.
I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.
When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha.
You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me. " "I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.
It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.
Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one.
The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.