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"Doubt treats God's Word as human advice-but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray."

"Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery."

"You were a rhyme who mattered, a being who slipped all too often."

"The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon."
Man,

"I'm sure I look like a drowned cat.""You look fine. The wet look works for you."I scowled. "Now I know you're lying."


"We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests."

"Good fiction creates its own reality."


"That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence."


"It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."

"LIFE - Death's Very Emissary."

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

"Positive people on the other had are not those who deny what is going on around them for some pie-in-the-sky type of thinking. Positive people are very award of the problems, disasters and difficulties that are happening all around them. What they do not do is give into defeat."

"The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It's the atomic age!"

"To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart."

"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."

"Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them."


"The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life."

"The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness."

"My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive."

"I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming."

"And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the firemen and the ignorant, the ones afraid of tales and words and dreams and Hallowe'en and people who have tattooed themselves with stories and Boys! You Can Grow Mushrooms in Your Cellar! and as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.I learned your books. Burned them into my mind. In case the firemen come to town."

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

"Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct."

"Don't just do the obvious and predictable stuff, be remarkable!"

"God made salvation the most precious gift for humanity which is why only a few are chosen for God's Paradise in heaven. Matthew 22:11-14"

"Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents."

"Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside."

"I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines."


"The shadow raised its arm high in the air and I knew - I knew before I heard my name - that he'd found me again, keeper of the promise he couldn't make, the one I had marked with my blood and who had marked me with his tears, a Silencer all right, my silencer, stumbling toward me in the impossibly pure light of a late winter's sunrise promising spring."


"We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another."

"Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, 'Oh, I know that. It's old hat.'And God answers, 'No, that's what you don't know. You don't know how much I love you. The moment you think you understand is the moment you do not understand. I am God, not man. You tell others about Me - your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of My only Son. The next time you preach about My love with such obnoxious familiarity, I may come and blow your whole prayer meeting apart.Did you know that every time you tell Me you love Me, I say thank you?"

"As Christmas draws near, let the words resonate - not just within your heart & mind, but Soul."

"Evening had turned the sky a deep persimmon. The remaining sunlight enriched the colors of the ubiquitous flowers and foliage to even greater vibrancy, as if the saturation filter had been notched up several levels.Caleb noted all this in passing as he strode deliberately forward. He didn't know how he was going to do this, only that he had to make the attempt."
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