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I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.
In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
"What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, "I am Great". "
we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.
I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.
I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.
Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.
Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away
I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri
...hot pink with a star done in rainbow rhinestones on the front. It was god-awful. I bought it.
ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ
Abe glanced at Rose. "You see that?" he said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.
Whereas Angeline's antics made me want to pull out my hair sometimes, Trey found them endearing.
We are in the days of miracles and wonders that will eventually eclipse those of any other time.
You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.
Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.
I think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out.
I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.
Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
The people who are scared of going on a diet are the people who could benefit the most from one.
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.
Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.