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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")
I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.
How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.
To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.
Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.
I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.
True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.