John Steakley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.
Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.
The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us.
The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.
A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.
As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

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