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"a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force."
"The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds."
"I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me."
"Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?"
"I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life."
"My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then."
"I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long."
"I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way."
"And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness."
"I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway."
"I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it's just piling up."
"Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it."
"If I believe the Bible, then I don't believe that a gay lifestyle or a homosexual lifestyle is the right way to choose to live. I believe that there's something so much better."
"Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out."
"Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way."
"Having everything your way is highly overrated."
"We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives."
"Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy."
"It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me."
"Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others."
