The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.
My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.
Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.
I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.
I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.
My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.
I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray to receive Christ' on it. I had never seen a tract in my life. I had never read a Bible.
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.
The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.
Economic polarization is also occurring between creditor and debtor nations. This issplitting the eurozone between Germany, France and the Netherlands in the creditor camp, against Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy falling deeper into debt, unemployment and austerity - followed by emigration and capital flight.
I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.