Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied.
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat. , Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant. ]
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people. ' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. . . Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with