You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.
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