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To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.
To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Be thou a bright flame before me, Be thou a guiding star above me, Be thou a smooth path below me, Today, tonight and forever.
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.
This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.
How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?
You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.
When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.
Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.
There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.
I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.
I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.
Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.
Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.
To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.
Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.
An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.
My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.
Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.