The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
nothing can wear you out like caring about people
Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.
I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1. 2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U. N. soldiers dumped s- from their Porta-Potties into the river. That's a f-ing scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so's plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I'd feel better about our future.
The will of God is found in the Word of God. The more a person grows, the more he begins to think instinctively and habitually from a divine perspective.