Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for...
The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.
You took too much man, too much, too much.
He had come so far from himself that I don'tthink he knew who he was anymore.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' -C. S. Lewis
“Wherever you go, you will be asked to do something wrong. It is the fundamental condition of life to be forced to do violence to one's personality. Sooner or later, all living creatures must do...
This is a universal darkness, the collapse of the universe; A curse in action, a curse that lies throughout life. Anywhere in the universe.
We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. -Burk Parsons
How long that part of the cycle had lasted he did not now know; nothing had happened, generally, so it had been measureless.
What's the use of a lague of nations if it's to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies? said Mr. Rasmussen sourly. But don't you think any kind of a league's better than nothing? said Eveline....
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening...
If I'm an andy," Phil Resch said, "and you kill me, you can have my squirrel. Here; I'll write it out, willing it to you.
It is over, isn't it? Trustingly, he seemed to be waiting for her to tell him, as if she would know. As if hearing himself say it meant nothing; he had a dubious attitude toward his own words; they...
She smiled innocuously-at variance with her words. At this point he could not discern her degree of seriousness. A topic of world-shaking importance, yet dealt with facetiously; an android trait,...
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I...
The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin...
The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
We should thank God for every stream of joy in our lives while recognizing that Christ is the ocean from which every stream flows.
SCRIVEN {1820–1886} wrote What a Friend We Have in Jesus after his fiancée drowned. George Matheson {1842–1906} wrote O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go after his fiancée rejected him because he was...
Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more? Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never...
Andrew Carnegie said, The almighty dollar bequeathed to a child is an almighty curse. No man has the right to handicap his son with such a burden as great wealth.
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them. -C. S. Lewis
I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back-but God has a bigger shovel. - R. G. LeTourneau
Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. -C. S. Lewis
Men seemed to have shrunk in stature before the vastness of the mechanical contrivances they had invented. Michael Angelo, da Vinci, Aretino, Cellini; would the strong figures of men ever so dominate...
After her initial fear had diminished, something else had begun to emerge from her. Something more strange. And, he thought, deplorable. A coldness. Like, he thought, a breath from the vacuum between...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
