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Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.
Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.
Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.
We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.
What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.
Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.
Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.
Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.
It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.
God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.
What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.
God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.
The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.
Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.
It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.