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The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Pray when you feel like it, pray when you don't feel like it, pray until you do feel like it!
The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.
Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life
Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!
Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.
U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract
Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.
If you Don't have Love, Harmony & Peace within you, then you Can't Contribute these Qualities
When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.
We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.
Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.
A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.
Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.
One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.
Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.
One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.