I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.
Damien has died and gone straight to gay boy heaven,' Shaunee said.
If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.