Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.
We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.
Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.
'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.
Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God
The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.
What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.
Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].
This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.
We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.
She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.
If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.
Graves: It’s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.
Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.
Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.
If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.
You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.
A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.
One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.
Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.
I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.
Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.
The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.
I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.