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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.
... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility
Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it’s difficult to score.
I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.
The act of choosing to forgive is not easy at the moment of hurt and pain, but in the long run, it is the only way to go.
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.
Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.
The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.
The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change
The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.
Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.
When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect job.
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.
You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.
What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.
it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.
You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?
We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant.
It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly. "You don't even know-" "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.
The moment we fully and vitally realise who and what we are, we then begin to build our own World even as God builds his.
I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.
Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do.
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.
If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.
The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.
Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.
We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable
Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.
What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.
He's an angel. Isn't he supposed to love everyone, even the damned? Especially when said damned are his drinking buddies.
I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups