What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.
Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
