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Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.
We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God
Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.
Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.
I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.
It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.
Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.
Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.
Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.
When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.
I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.
Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.
You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.
A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.
It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.
Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.
Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.
I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.