The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?
I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.
I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.
Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.
I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.
You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.
Any story is better with a little love in it, right?
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country.
Strange though it may seem, there are distinct similarities between the ways of God in revival and in judgment. . . Because of His very nature, God cannot and will not permit spiritual decline to continue unchecked. He is ever halting and reversing the trend of the times by means of revival - or judgment. Where His people are not prepared for the one, they shut themselves up to the other.
Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.