S.A. David Quotes
God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.
It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.
A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.
The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves.
We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.
There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.
The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.