When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists.
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades.
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
