Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.
The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but to open up and discover. The energetic prose comes about from all the energy that went into crafting it, I suppose.
Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.
I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are. . . than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.