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The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.
In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.
December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.
I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.
Perhaps the most important marketing step any business can take is to discover a way to be different.
The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.
Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.
Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.
If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.
If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.
The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.
It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.
You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.