According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.
My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on London's Oxford Street. I got pushed over by these little herberts and given a good shoe-in.
The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.
I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs. " With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs. " But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he. . . had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.
I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.
These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity. We have reached for the stars.
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.
The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.
Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.
It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.
To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.
If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.
