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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.
The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.
Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
You are a physical extension of pure positive energy. Therefore, there is nothing more important than that you feel good.
Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy
The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.
Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.
What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.
We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.
The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?