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A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.
The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.
If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.
When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.
Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.
We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.
Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.
In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.
Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.
If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.
If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.
To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.
When I am willing to step into the realm of uncertainty and ambiguity, I open myself up to infinite possibilities.
He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.