Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
The author of Hebrews says what kept him (Jesus) going was "the joy set before him" (Hebrews 12:2). The joy of accomplishing what had been lovingly planned from the beginning...the joy of pleasing his Father. And you. Your face was before him. He was...
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result...
[Gru is showing Mr. Perkins his plans, using pictures on an easel] Gru: I fly to the moon, I shrink the moon, I grab the moon, I sit on the toi-let what? [sees a child's drawing in his plans, of himself sitting on a toilet, signed by Edith, the girls...
Simon: [talking to police on speaker phone] Well, is the ebony Samaritan there, now? Zeus: You got a problem with ebony? Simon: No, no. My only problem is that I went to some trouble preparing that game for McClane. You interfered with a well-laid pl...
[regarding Elizabeth's impending reign] Unseen Gentleman: Your Grace, Protestants are already returning from abroad. Norfolk: Yes. And have made plans to massacre every Catholic in England. There would be butchery indeed if such a plan were even conc...
Judge Doom: A few weeks ago I had the good providence to stumble upon a plan of the city council. A construction plan of epic proportions. We're calling it a freeway. Eddie Valiant: Freeway? What the hell's a freeway? Judge Doom: Eight lanes of shimm...
A Person spends a whole day, five days a week or more, working hard to make money, but few ever think beyond this fact. They live from pay cheque to pay cheque, drifting through life, and only realize too late that what they have been doing was not w...
I don't like to plan anything.
My love, there is no plan B.
Always have a backup plan.
I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Fun is not to be planned It is to be found
The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.
Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.
There is no fixed formula for prayer. It has to be spontaneous, sincere, and affectionate. It is an over pouring of human spirit to God
...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...
The God who made all things and has all power, loves us and hears our prayers.
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)
