Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.
Everyone expects me to do certain things.
I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.
Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.
The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.
Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.
Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with.
I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.
There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks of theology. ) This is often associated with Arminian theology stemming from the great Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius. However, the view was taken up by [Jonathan] Edwards's disciples in New England, who developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.
Hussein praised his sons for putting up a brave fight, noting that U. S. forces had surrounded their compound with advanced weaponry, ground troops and warplanes. In case that didn't work, U. S. forces were prepared to tell Janet Reno that a small Cuban boy was inside the house.
If you find yourself loving any pleasure more than your prayers, any book better than the Bible, any house better than the house of the Lord, any table better than the Lord's table, any persons better than Christ, or any indulgence better than the hope of heaven – be alarmed.