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She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.
One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.
If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.
Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.
The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.
But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley
She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.
I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.
The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago
I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.
If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.
Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.
I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.
As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.
Your worth as a person does not come from what you are paid. It comes from who you are and what you give.
It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.
An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.
The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.
Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.
I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me.
The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.