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And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.
I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.
The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.
[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.
When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
When God is truly angry, He will not send vengeful angels. He will send Magdalena. Then take her away.
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.
Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.
God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.
Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.
There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.
God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.
There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.
At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.
If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.
Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.
if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett
You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.
Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.
It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.
Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.
What else don’t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry.
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.
Sometimes I call myself a freelance, I can't see any one of the great religions as superior to others.
When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.
Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.
I'd never been turned on by the Ken doll—even before I looked down his pants and saw what was missing.
Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.
He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted.
We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.
The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.
Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.
The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.
I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that