For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.
Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.
Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.
There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this. . . this--' 'School?
I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you. " "Don't say that. " Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.