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Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?
Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.
I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.
Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.
For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.
I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.
What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.
We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.
Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.
Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.