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The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.
CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.
We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.
Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.
Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.
I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.
I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.
Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.
The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
Creativity is what will separate the winners from the also-rans in the emerging world of business - and life.
I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.
We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.
I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.
My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.
My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.
I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.
Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.
He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.
Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.