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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.
If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.
My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Me personally, I don't ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.
Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.
I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's.
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
Your Friday and Saturday nights are sacred. When a new guy asks for a prime-time date early on, suggest drinks and make him the warm-up.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?