The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).
I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.
Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.
Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend. " "And I to see you dead.
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.
But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
The glory of God is the human person fully alive.
I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.
That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would have happened if I hadn't been alive and well and really lively in the Cambridge scene. But (the folk scene) was, and I fell into it absolutely naturally in the little coffee shops, and pretty soon it was Newport and then it was an overwhelming response internationally, actually.
There is no one against us in this world but ourselves. You are against you. A failure to love, embrace, and accept yourself based on not a thing flows outwards and causes conflict. Love you for being alive, accept and embrace all of you, and where is the hate now? How can you hate another now? Where can conflict arise?