The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.
When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.
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.
We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince. . .
Katie Grand often comes in from a very different angle than what I've been thinking about. And that really gives it that extra something, because designers can often get stuck in their own view of how the collection can look. I always love the way that she turns it into something else and I kind of let go at that point.