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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring ...
For if there was to be any transformation in the spiritual orientation of the pilgrim's soul, that change would take place not on arrival as ...
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...
There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers ...
The true story behind the legend is so much better." "It always is.
May it please our Lord to kindle a new light of the world which may guide unbelievers to conversion, that with us they may meet ...
Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That's ...
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and ...
The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write ...
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children ...
It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, ...
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I ...
Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in ...
Timmy has no intention of going on the trip. He has never been on a sightseeing tour before and according to him, he is never ...
Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more ...
As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, ...
Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell ...
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...
Flapping crows. Shiny beetles crawling in the undergrowth. A patch of sky, frozen in a cloudy retina, reflected in a puddle on the ground. Yoo-hoo. ...
Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and ...
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year ...
Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt ...
In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
We aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.
The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!
My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal ...
Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking ...
There'd been some nights when my fat ass had saved my ass (ba-dum-tsh).
She had a knack for relieving the tension in a room by pretending my rudeness away with cooking. Many, many chickens had given up their ...
'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether ...
A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction ...
There is nothing in this world more powerful than the connection a person feels for another.
Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes ...
.. and yet it all seems limitless...
So I take Peter's hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, You have to take good care of this, because it's yours.
It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so ...
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to ...
Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've ...
I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from ...
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Then I reached the second building and saw the conflagration. A bonfire twenty feet high. The wreck of a Hummer, its carcass barely visible behind ...
I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left ...
Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I ...
Today, when I count her smile, I get to keep it.
Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that ...
I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their ...
In the distance, up the street, too far away for Sam to want to chase after, a couple of kids, maybe ten years old, maybe ...
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.
But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, ...
'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite ...
She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants.
The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.
I want to go slow, baby, I really do," he whispered at the side of her neck. "But I'm not going to be able to ...
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for ...
The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally ...
What was it about Halloween that gave every girl license to dress as slutty as possible?
We may call painting the grandchild of nature.
An image of Sydney's face appeared in my mind's eye, calm and lovely.I believe in you.My anxiety faded.I took a deep breath and met the ...
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, ...
I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I ...
Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ...
Power of softness and kindness are the greatest.
Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, ...
It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest ...
Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks
Maca boosts sex drive like crazy. And if there's any side effect, some people just have to stop taking it because they get so sexually ...
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not ...
In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very ...
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But ...
Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit ...
You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you ...
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me ...
I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, ...
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The ...
If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.
My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but ...
You're always just a little too late. You've spent half your life battling regrets. Making up for the past rather than getting it done in ...
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the ...
Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome ...
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little ...
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better ...
The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome - this orphan, ...
A year ago, I was too busy thinkin' about how lucky I was that someone as beautiful and talented as you let me into her ...
Having invented himself, the narcissist sees no problem in recasting that which he had designed in the first place. The narcissist is his own repeated ...
Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search ...
The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher's eyes meet his own, and for ...
It never ceased to amaze him how most nobles considered themselves so much better than the people they ruled, even though that rule was always ...
Things hurt.. accepted. Shedding tears.. accepted. Sadness.. accepted.. But to quit and make your work suffer.. not at all accepted..
I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To ...
Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.
As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to ...
The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way ...
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will ...
I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party ...