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Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.
Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.
Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.
We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.
Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.
Do you serve God or do you serve your feelings? Believe the Word of God over and above your feelings.
Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.
Never hesitate to take what you think are small things to God; after all, EVERYTHING is small to God.
If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!
1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.
We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.
I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.
It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine." -Simon to Daphne
I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.
When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.
To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?
For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.
Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.
Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So... God gives the world a living epistle- you.
Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.
The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.
The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.
That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.
I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.
This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity
You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.
We're still on the run. That's for sure. Right on. This time we're on. And we won't stop till we win.
I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.
A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.
I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.
I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.