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Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.
God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.
I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.
If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.
When you love what’s deeper, your response is direct. There won’t be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper.
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
Never take your eyes off them,” Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ever tell you that?
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.
So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.
You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.
True urgent leadership doesn't drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.
The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness.
Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It affects mood, vitality, alertness, and feelings of well-being.
This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.
... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!
You're worth something because God says you're worth something-not because of what people think or say about you.
We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.
I've always been interested in why countries appear and disappear. And the curious thing is how often it happens.
In answer, she took his hand and placed it on her chest. Right over her heart. 'You're in, Cade Morgan. Only you.
Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else probably won't work for you.