I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.
The question is not what was different about Bathsheba. The difference was what had become different about David.
Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.
The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.
There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.
Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?
If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.
The strangest thing [to sign] has to be parts of [fan's] anatomy. But mostly female.
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.