It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.
Die to self: die to criticism, die to praise.
A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.
Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.
If you are a child of God, know that every promise in the Bible is yours.
The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.
Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.
[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.
When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him.
I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.
A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.