There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.
After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.
I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.
And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?
The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.
There is a world of difference between the experience of 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basic biological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us want to live.
What if...what if...what if...I play the What If? game all the time. But it's rigged, is the thing. Impossible to win. Asking What If? can only lead to Maybe Things Could Have Been Different, via Was It My Fault?
I went to sleep feeling like a terrorist. But I wasn't going to kill people, I was going to bring them back to life. That's a whole different kind of terror. It's the terror of god.
It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.
Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.
God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?
He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.
I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.
It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million." "How many words are in the English language?" "Not the point.
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
