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All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance.
You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you.
It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.
She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.
But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.
You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.
Don't undervalue yourself. God loves you. Your worth is what you are worth to God. Jesus died for you. You are of infinite value.
What other thing, Eve?" "I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.
America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.
Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.
I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.
I never said I didn't like kissing you. The problem is too many guys have like kissing you." - Erik Night to Zoey Redbird (Ch 26)
In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.
Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.
What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.
Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.
You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.
We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.
The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.
Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.
And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.
The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.