Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.
I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.
The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.
Is your problem really your problem, or is it your attitude towards the problem that's your problem?
The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.
The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.
We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.
Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.
The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love
But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.
Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.
Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.
We do not believe in order to be regenerated; we must be regenerated in order that we might believe.
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.
I've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about.
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.
Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.
Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
I'm pretty sure most of us would be more fulfilled if we didn't fixate on fulfillment quite so much.
Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.
I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.
The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'!
I only really ever hug my mother. Is this okay?” he asked. I laughed. “It’s hard to get a hug wrong.