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God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.
Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.
There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?
Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.
I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.
The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.
Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees.
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.
Consistency is necessary, but its not sufficient to make it to a level that breaks you out in front of everyone else.
If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.
Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.
Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.
I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.
And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.
You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.
It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.
It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
Traitor!" Hera shouted. "You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much less rule the world.
Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!
It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.
I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.