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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.
I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.
My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.
By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.
Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.
Pence is far too conservative for me, but by all accounts, he's an intelligent, experienced, decent man with no skeletons in his closet.
As in most subjects relating to money management, there's a wide diversity of opinion on portfolio concentration versus diversification.
The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility.
I think most people agree with the idea of shared sacrifice, but for many, when push comes to shove, that principle goes out the window.
Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert
Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.
There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].
At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.
I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.
Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect. That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.
You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?
I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.
They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.
The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.