The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]
Fat, Is saving our lives.
I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.
My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.
There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.
I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.
Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.
In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
After my husband, Dave, died, I called my friend Adam, a psychologist who studies how people find meaning in our lives, and I asked him what, if anything, I could do to help myself and my kids get through this. We started talking about resilience, then reading about it, then talking to other people who had gotten through grief and other huge challenges. In time, those conversations and that research helped me heal.
Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.
I want us all to get healthier, but also to live life to the fullest along the way. I want people to live their lives no matter what.
Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.