I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.
I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.
Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.
Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.
May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.