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Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.
The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.
The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.
Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.
God is bigger than every issue you will ever have to face, and you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who strengthens you.
If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.
Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!
When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.
Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.
Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to.
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.
Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
I wanted a girl as perfect as Brooke, and instead, she gave me something I never knew I wanted: something perfect that looks like me.
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.
We took authority in the spirit world and refused to give Satan any room to operate. This is our responsibility as Christian parents.
Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.
Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them.
Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.
I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.
Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
She turned to him, her cheeks burning red. “What is this? Vampire porn?” “Yep.” “Oh, and this is a good one. Muffy the Vampire Layer.
The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us
Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.
Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.
For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.