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Defries was forced to cancel dates in Dallas and Houston because of weak advance sales.
Alcohol lowered inhibitions. It didn't create impulses that weren't there.
People didn't realize that pastors, preachers, teachers, worship leaders, poured out so much of themselves, they needed the opportunity to be filled back up, too.
The only words that matter flow from the cracks in our spirit, through the breaches in our resolve.
May we not be strangers in the lush province of joy
I think that sometimes when you get used to a bad thing like being in prison or getting kidnapped by fairies it's better to live ...
For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending ...
In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.
You can't avoid caring for someone for fear that one day something bad will happen. You will only die alone and afraid.
I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor ...
Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet".
Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love
If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time ...
I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't imagining ...
Genes are the petri dish of the Soul
We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession ...
There's always another way. And that doesn't make them bad or worse than other ways. Things are bad right now, sure, but they don't have ...
In the life of every believer, there is conformity to Christ's suffering, a participation in Christ that inevitably includes the elements of self-denial, shame, and ...
WHAT! What do you mean you got kidnapped? What happened?" "Calm down, it's okay. I killed him.
Thrown rocks can only hit a bird who is soaring lower than it is capable of.
We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, ...
I want to be more.
The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly ...
It would be a far greater sin for you to drift along in a haze of moderation than to start a fire or two. Go ...
Each One, Teach One
I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over ...
Just got back from a 5 day camping trip. No phones, no Internet, no problem. It was great. Now time for a hot shower. I ...
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
Man fucks woman; subject verb object.
There was no honor in grinding outsiders underfoot. There was no joy in burning their legacies. The highest good laid in lifting everyone up, believer ...
Live to write. Write to inspire. Inspire to write.
I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having ...
If you can learn everything or imagine everything, imagine everything.
Practices are cultural: they do not submit to the meanings that an individual wants them to have, either for herself or for others.
At first I didn't dig country.
We are the environment.
A man needs an allegiance. He must have a cause and an identity that lays claim over him and compels him to pick up a ...
I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I ...
When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness - something they ...
Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.
3 Things to keep private.1) Your Love Life.2) Your income.3) Your Next Move.
Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an act of Congress ...
If Hard proves to be not hard enough for you, you can go "Hardcore," which means that if you die, you stay dead. That is ...
One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a bad ...
Rap that dishonors God does not ruin all rap. God is redeeming rap.
She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.
Runners who attend a yoga class the day after a marathon are often amazed at the speed of their recovery; they are able to go ...
Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but always ...
To those looking on with interest, and there were plenty of gawking eyes fixed on her, she supposed she appeared to be gliding with ease. ...