An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.
The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
I believe God, through His Spirit, grants us love, joy, and peace no matter what is happening in our lives. As Christians, we shouldn't expect our joy to always feel like happiness, but instead recognize joy as inner security -- a safeness in our life with Christ.
Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.
Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.