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God will come into your plans. But the choice is yours whether you allow Him to begin it, or force Him to end it.
It's more fun to hang out with someone who's upbeat and positive than it is to hang out with Hater McWhineypants.
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust . . . if you found the right person . . . you really could have it all.
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.
Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!
Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!
I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.'
I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.
So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.
When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man.
I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.
All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.
It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.
Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.
In investing it is never wrong to change your mind. It is only wrong to change your mind and do nothing about it.
Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.
I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.
Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.
Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.
Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.