I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.
You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.
Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.
God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.
Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.
A single woman should only marry a man she can follow: Ladies if you are single, be very, very careful who you date and marry. Don't just date a man who you can put up with, marry a man you can trust, you'll follow his leadership, you'll respect him, he's saved, he's godly. The last thing you want is some guy you don't trust, he's not wise, he doesn't do his homework, he's harsh, he's inconsiderate, he's immature, he's a boy, you're more his mother than you are his mate, Real danger. . . real danger. . .
The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.
But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.