This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?
The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed ...
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member...
And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing and not breathing and hearts beating between us and he's so close, he's so close and I can't feel my legs anymore. I can't feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, e...
Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being among imperfect human beings again." "Jenny
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended,...
Good evening, gentlemen!' said the vampire. 'Please pay attention. I am a vampire, which is to say, I am a bundle of repressed instincts held together with spit and coffee. It would be wrong to say that violent, tearing carnage does not come easily t...
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...
[Roger and Peter are startled by the Old Priest] Old Priest: Señores, please to let me pass. Roger: Let's get him to the med unit. Old Priest: No, no, please. Just let me pass. I go up to seventh floor to find my sister; just let me pass. The people...
Marlin: [exasperated] Would somebody please just give me directions? [School of fish take shape of clown fish with sour expression] School of Fish: [mockingly] Would somebody please just give me directions? Marlin: I'm serious! School of Fish: Blah-b...
Kenny: Put your hands on your head, please. Andrew Largeman: What? Kenny: I said to put your motherfucking hands on your head. [slams car door] Kenny: Please. Eighty in a twenty-five. What are you going to tell me, you were late or you're just tired?...
[from trailer] Katniss Everdeen: Haymitch, please. Please, just help me get through this trip. Haymitch Abernathy: This trip doesn't end when you get back home. Peeta Mellark: So what do we do? Haymitch Abernathy: From now on, your job is to be a dis...
Dr. Cliff Patel: Will somebody please explain me the parlay, please? Ronnie: You gotta win two bets or you lose the whole thing. For Pat Sr. to win, the Birds gotta beat the Cowboys, plus, Pat and Tiffany gotta get at least a 5 at the dance. Dr. Clif...
[Roger is sitting outside of the Acme factory, crying while looking at pictures of him and Jessica] Roger Rabbit: Oh Jessica, please tell me it's not true. [sobbing] Roger Rabbit: [the pictures are of Roger and Jessica's wedding, them at a beach, and...
Where the hedge is lowest everyone goes over.
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.
Not everyone who sings a lullaby stays awake.
Everyone thinks his own cross is heaviest.
The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
When I had money everyone called me brother.
