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There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.
Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.
But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.
Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.
God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.
We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?
He was on his knees before this female, and he'd gladly stay there for the rest of his life.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.
Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?
People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.
My favorite prayer is thank you. Most people are asking for things and not doing their part.
If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!
The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.
Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.
Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.
I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.