You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.
Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!
Christ is risen from the dead!
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!
No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about. . . 'For I tell you. . . no man can serve two masters. . . ' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer. . . Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!
Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen. . . where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.
Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.
It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.
she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.
The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.