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That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.
A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.
People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.
People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.
A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.
The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.
The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking.
The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.
The more open you are within, the more capacity you will have to know, to see, and to love.
If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.
The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.
It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?
Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.
If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?
The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.
I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.
By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.
I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.
Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.
We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.
I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.