Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.
True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.
The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.
Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.
People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
