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If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.
I know Jerry [Falwell] fairly well, and he's probably not bright enough to recognize all of the implications of what he said.
The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.
All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.
We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling
Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.
The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up
Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.
Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.
Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him.
Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.
Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done.
- I hate to break this to you, Cameron, but you are only human. - Shh... I've been trying to keep that under wraps for years.
His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.
You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.
The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.
I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.
You have to have a spirit of courage and adventure, or else you're going to find it tough to get up in the morning sometimes.
The world doesn't throw a billion dollars at a person because the person wants it or works so hard they feel they deserve it.
I don't think it's that difficult to distinguish between people with narcissistic disorders and people with high self-esteem.
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.
Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?
He is in my soul and i am in his, and we are in bed but we are in a desert, and i do not know where he begins and i end - Mac
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.