When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord.
In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.
Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.
No marketing plan is ever going to bring in one soul that was not ordained by the Lord to be saved in the first place.
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.
I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.
"If we are truly the Lord's, we all walk with a limp" ~R. Alan Woods [2012] *Note: 'Jacobs Ladder'.
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.
Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...
