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If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
When you stop seeing beauty you start growing old.
He has shown you what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf. "And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
The sun rose with so many colors it nearly broke my heart and worked me over like a work of art and I was a part of all that.
If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God's side.
Yeah, but this ho don't know that I know she a ho.
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