Once I started to look i finally began to see.
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Confidence is the public face of competence.
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly - he's not a governor. Some governors, of course, they have experience in executing power, which is something fairly unique, actually, in government. And he has, neither, a set of nourishing experiences.
It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me. ' You have to say, 'That can happen to me. ' So always be aware that things can happen.
God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we’re wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us.