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If the perfect Son of God is unattractive to you, then obviously you are an unattractive person.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.
The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.
"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.
I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.
Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.
Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.
After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.
Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!
Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.
Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.
The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.
Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.
Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.
Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life.
There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.
I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.