"While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do."

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Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.37, Moody Publishers

James MacDonald

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“How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.”
“The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally go where we are not persecuted, and, still persecution is the result of our appearance...By persecution we cannot be exterminated...the strong Jews turn proudly to their race when persecution bursts out. Entire branches of Judaism may disappear, break away; the tree lives.”
“When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.”
“It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.”
“I’m always looking to top the last match, I’m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but I’m learning that it’s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what I’m doing by giving my best. I’ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.”
“Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.”

Source : "Milestone: Q&A With Steve Madden". Interview with Neil Weilheimer, footwearnews.com. February 22, 2010.
“I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.”
“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

Source : "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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