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It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.
You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.
And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined.
A resolution to exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-being from which you originated.
Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom
If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.
I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.
The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.
On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?
Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.
Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord.
Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.
The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational.
My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not for them.
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.