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Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.
To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.
We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.
I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.
I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.
Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.
I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.
Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.
I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.
That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.
The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.
Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.
You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.
You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.
While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.
Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.
God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.