Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.
You don't have to make excuses for God.
If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.
Our focus must always be on building people up.
It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel.
Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.
Anything that you have is seed that God has given you.
If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law
The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.
You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or a tone in their voice, or a way they walk, that you’ve never ever seen before. Like they’ve kept it hidden. Until their brother dies. Or their son. I remember those days and they were like these strangers and I wanted to say, Who are you people?
I'm just funnier when I'm drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.