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The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.
Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.
We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.
Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.
I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.
Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.
While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.
Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.
Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.
The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.
What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.
We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.
If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.
Your goal should be something that feels really right, not forced. Make sure your goal resonates with what’s true for you.
Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.
Whenever the method of Worship Becomes more Important than the Person of Worship, We have already prostituted Our Worship.
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.
You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton.” Nick didn’t blink. “Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.
When it's asshole-tightening time, that's when you see what people are made of. Or at least what their asshole is made of.
Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.
The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken.
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.
You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.