Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an important part of the machinery which grace employs. We are saved 'through faith,' but salvation is 'by grace'.
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.
...if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice]
We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.
I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was just a hobby at that point, met Stanley Kubrick and was like, 'Whoa, this can be an art form, and you can really move people the way you do simply by ac...
Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth move Doubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love
But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage.
This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
Success comes to us when we have a burning desire to achieve and we focus our full power on achieving that.
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
Jacksonville is home to the most romantic man in the known universe. And it will be for some time, until I either move away, or my clone arrives to challenge me for my title.
Adrian tipped my face up toward his and kissed me. Like always, the world around me stopped moving. No, the world became Adrian, only Adrian.
Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.
I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome
But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.
If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.
