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"You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how love is. Do you have any idea what I'd do for you? To keep you safe?"

"If you want your ministry to have 'it', more important than anything else we've discussed, you must have 'it'. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God's anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with 'it'. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own."

"I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living."

"Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9"

"When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling."

"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."


"The main strength of the subconscious mind is that it stores all of a person's beliefs."

"Teamwork, amazing outcome."

"Just as a star can't be seen behind a cloud, you can never shine and be seen behind the clouding of your insecurities."

"God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside--in the inner woman and her heart--and then works outward."


"Every blessing is a challenge to work."

"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."


"Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."

"Bright light. You've always found your way."

"This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I seen it over an' over-a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference."

"The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action."

"Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win."


"If we don't see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating those changes. We cannot a!ord to entertain superficial changes any more. The changes we need should be deep, real, and thorough."

"Your choices can only be limited by your mind."

"In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out."

"One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive."

"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."

"Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?"


"Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware."

"You sometimes have to let people off the bus during your journey in life...not because you don't love them but because they are a distraction towards your growth!"


"Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening."

"Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know."

"Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time."

"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."

"The quiet times are the ones to hold on to."

"Nobody's life is perfect. Rather than wishing for things you don't have, make the most of the things you do have."


"Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition."

"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."

"Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?"
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