Joshua Quotes
You know, the heart is meant to be your life support, I was a fool to give her my heart. She affected my life support greatly and I know that I will never be the same without her again.
The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.
How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?
...minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.
We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.
The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it comes to their duty there are none fiercer.
Don't spread negativity, that stuff is contagious and ruins us. The good news is, positivity can also be contagious and it lifts us.
How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?
As I see it, dating is a product of our entertainment-driven, disposable-everything American culture...Love and romance became things people could solely enjoy for their recreational value.
...for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.
When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.
One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment.
For all our penny-wisdom, ’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.
I think we’re losing sight of what our ultimate goal is here, ” said Genevieve. But we feared that if she was washed out, people would look right past the flyer.
A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.
Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.
Isolation is not a healthy ‘coping’ method, it’s like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!
When purchasing gifts becomes the focal point of the season, we lose focus on what's truly important.
Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.
Charlie Everman understood, in the very depth of his soul, that God's mercies were new each morning.
We continue to say hi to those we've lost, and for a little while at least, the world down here feels a little less dark.
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?
Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?
Just a child. All this time we've feared you, sought you. And you're nothing more than a human child.
We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.
You don't need more space. You need less stuff.
Life is a gift. We don't earn it. We don't own it. Learn to be thankful for the time that you have.
To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…
There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.
Everything fades away when we lock eyes with the one who calls us His own.
No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.
You messed up with the wrong Angel. My weapon is a double-edge sword. One side of the blade represents Truth and the other represents Karma.
In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.
Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.