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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.
Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.
Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear.
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.
To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.
The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.
… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.
Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.
I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured
But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?
When we keep the spirit of Christmas, we keep the spirit of Christ, for the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit.
Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.
It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.
You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.
Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.
More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.