The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.
Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.
God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.
Worm theology is too high for me.
Get low; grace will meet you there.
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to love.
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind. . . It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'NipTuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.