If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. . . We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to. " But then within like an hour, they were like, "You're really a writer. " "Yeah, I really am. I'm a writer, and a director, and a producer, and an actor, and a painter, and I do all that stuff in the Lush Life. " It was great.
I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.