Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.
'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
Evidence of true faith is the determination to trust God when that which He allows makes no sense--and is utterly disagreeable.
To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.
I just have to make it to the Tuichi' I mumbled to myself, 'I just have to make it to the Tuichi'. Alone, deep in the jungle, so small and insignificant, pitted against nature, still I sensed someone was watching me. Or watching over me.Someone could...
The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. Th...
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells y...
The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, wh...
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why. The why question leads to indecision, anxiety, caution and self-limitation. There are all responses which originate in fear-based emotions.
