Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them.
Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
I'm really paying attention. People make up their minds late.
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.