Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.
if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
The War will leave none of us as it found us.
when you think you've got hold of a genius. . . you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.
I'm really happy that I've been able to make people laugh and distract them from their day to day bullshit at a comedy show or because they enjoyed one of my CDs or TV specials, but I don't know how many people have actually had life changing thoughts because of it.
There is a great beauty in little things.
A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.
I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.