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Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.
It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.
Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.
The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.
We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.
For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.
When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.
There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.
You probably should get back out there. You’re ignoring your other guests.” “Screw them.” “I’m sure that many of them, you already have.
My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.
You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time!
Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.
I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained. Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?” “Crazy?
Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, but you’re not sure I’m worth your time.
Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you.
Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.
This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.