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Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.
Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.
He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.
I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.
A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.
To attract the things we love we must transmit love, and those things will appear immediately.
Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc.
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.
Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.
I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.
After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.
There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.
Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.
Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.
There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.