What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're. . . sophisticated. '
We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.
Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.
Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.