The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.
You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.
The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.