If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence. . . you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.
We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.
It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.
Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean they’ll treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.
God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen
It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what. "
Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.
No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied.
Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.
I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing. " But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.
The fact of the matter is: when you're doing a project, you try to make it better every moment. And a lot of people get frustrated. But I surrounded myself with a good team of people and I'm really proud of the work we've all done. All I can say is - I've learned this in my business - don't let the process frustrate you; focus on the end. Because the end is pretty wonderful. Just fight it out.
Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.
Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.
Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and they've done a lot of hiring over eight years, not just political appointees. And they've done a lot of firing or driving people out who might have countermanded or resisted. So, institutionally, it's not going to be simply a matter of flipping the switch to undo it. You're going have to bring in people dedicated to transparency, and you have to demonstrate that there are rewards for candor.
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.
