So Do You. Quotes
If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.
You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
He was the kind of guy that made a woman want to rip his shirt open and watch the buttons scatter along with her inhibitions.
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.
Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.
...writing is not a performance but a generosity.
True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.
God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does
That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing
The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.
I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.