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Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?
There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people.
I will continue to make mistakes and hope to be forgiven so I have to treat people the same way I want to be treated.
Racism is never personal - it's about someone saying the group I am part of is superior to the group you are part of.
If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.
The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.
If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.
My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.
"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."
We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.
Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.
The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.
What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.
Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped
I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.