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Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!
When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.
The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God.
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.
In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.
The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up seven is still a function of random luck.
Listen, Patch, I don’t want to be rude, but—” “Sure you do.” “Well, you started it!” Lovely. Very mature.
But if the choice I have to make comes down to you or me, I choose you. I always have. All my love, Patch
It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.
Tacos." "Tacos?" I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese." "I know what a taco is!
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.
I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.
Faith is not opposed to the mind. It’s superior to the mind which is why the renewed mind enhances faith.
As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.
Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.
I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day.
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.
The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, he asks us to be strong and take courage.