And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.
Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.
We want to change from featureless caterpillars to become beautiful butterflies, and the change takes place wrapped up in our own little cocoons.
We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them...
I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.
For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.
But just look at her, he thought. How can there be this much treasure all in one place, and the world still here?
I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to preach redemption to a packed chapel full of sinners.
True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.
I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.
