Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.
Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of the welfare of individuals who may get lost in the operation of the system - the distributional question. We've seen this growing as we go further and further toward a market ideology in the United States and the United Kingdom. We've seen a decline in the welfare of the working poor, leaving aside any other pathologies, just the working poor, a very distinct increase at the very top levels.
If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.