Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
I'm still down with Jesus. I like to think of him mostly as a social revolutionary who mixed with bad crowds and hated the rich.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.
Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.
We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
