We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp. 88)
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people. . . . And after the nation turned back to its land with strength, it protected it steadfastly. . . .
I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.
I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.
Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.
That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.
We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.
I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing
Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.
Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.