It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.
Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.
The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.
There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.
Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?
If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.
What crystallized the importance of speaking out like that - of making nonviolence not just a tool or a tactic, but a way of life - was in San Diego [at Comic-Con]. One of the young girls who marched with us was wearing a hijab, and she came up to me afterward because I talked about my beard, and I talked about why I was doing it, and she came up and she gave me a hug, and she was crying. And she said, "Thank you. You have no idea how the other students treat me because they're shown that this is OK by Donald Trump. Thank you for speaking out. "
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.
Anything for gold and experience.
In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.