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On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.
I think when Aristotle said that man is a political animal, he was really saying that man is a pack animal.
Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance
Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.
The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.
Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.
Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.
Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.
That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.
If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.
View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.
Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.
Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?
comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.
After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND THANK EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS