"More..." < more>

"Another displays what psychiatrists have said is a key trait to keeping the men motivated and optimistic -- a sense that they have a role in their own destinies..." < more>

"My mom was lying on the beach as I played in the sand and my sister casually came up to us and told us she had just spent the last hour walking the beach with a man who told her he was a Jewish New Yorker who had a hit comedy show on TV about a family. His name was Norman..." < more>

"In some families you have a black sheep or red-headed stepchild, but you've also got the favorite; the teachers pet -- the one who is just tugging at your heart above all the others. That's Benjamin..." < more>

"And the great battle today is not fighting the social battles and the cultural wars; it's fighting the religious front. Until you understand that, you're not going to be in the real battle..." < more>

"And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil..." < more>

"Basically, kangaroo was an Australian tribe word for, 'What did you say?' When Cook first observed the strange animal sitting on his tail, he asked, 'What's that?' to which a native responded in his tongue, 'What did you say?'" < more>

"A very striking beauty in her younger days... she was everything from a semi driver and truckstop cook to a switchboard operator and fancy hotel clerk..." < more>

"Now, if we begin to collect together the Scripture and I had a copy of it and I'm studying it, what would you want to do? ... you know what I'd want? I'd want my copy too...!" < more>

"Then he's transported in the spacecraft... and travels all the way out there to that planet in the third heaven..." < more>

"Well, was it 'in the flesh' that you wrote it or was it really just you pouring your heart out...?" < more>

"He thought MY thoughts were worthy of writing down and it made him mad that I only wanted to write about what other people's thoughts were..." < more>

"I was actually reunited with a bunch of books that have sat idle on my shelves since the last time I moved [and] couldn't help but open some of them for quick reminder peeks at why I still value them..." < more>

"Cain's best turned into rage and anger and blood lust for murder. It brought destruction to his brother and all that followed him..." < more>

"When you say somebody's first and there's a whole bunch of people following them you know the Pharisees in Jesus' day, and in Paul's day, didn't just come up then. They're promoting a system that began with Cain...!" < more>

"You stand out there with a big old gun and the squirrel sticks his little noggin up out of the ground and BOOM! The trick there though is to get the animal to come up on you..." < more>

"As former Council of Economic Advisors head Greg Mankiw notes regarding the health-care bill, the prime motive was not 'health per se but... redistribution of income...'" < more>

"It says 'the dogs came and licked his sores.' That's the kind of dogs you get; you're talking about scavengers, ones that run in packs and seek to tear and devour..." < more>

"This HUGE break in my budding journalism career not only garnered me a coveted rookie position as a 'bureau chief,' but I was employed by the Elmira Star-Gazette, an upstate New York newspaper with the privileged distinction of being the first Gannett newspaper..." < more>

"When I read that, I thought, 'Wow, that's really crafty!' It's to misunderstand the idea of an image [...] It's not some little piece of stone or some rusty thing. It's a person..." < more>

"Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...!" < more>

"In a way, one could see the whole story of Gilgamesh as a failed search for immortality..." < more>

"It is a cold and irresponsible act on Toyota's part, a decision that was not necessary from a business standpoint and that completely disregards the wave of human misery it is setting in motion..." < more>

"The kids have closets full of No. 23 gear and now we have to go out and buy No. 6 gear? Money doesn't grow on trees, or maybe just on really tall trees that only NBA players can reach..." < more>

"A man in Hangzhou has been widely reported for his offer to sell his car's license plate A88888 for $160,000..." < more>

"History is replete with examples of local catastrophes. Those tragic events traced through human history have become the focus of many a study and geological research..." < more>

"The 144,000 represents the number of redeemed Believers... to kick off the inauguration of the New Covenant's Kingdom program. It has nothing to do with heaven, period...!" < more>

"I think that there is no supernatural dimension whatever. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition..." < more>

"Stuff like the wild weather, and the earthquake in Haiti, and Iran building nukes [...] has those with even a superficial knowledge [...] thinking we're heading full-blown into apocalyptic times..." < more>

"'Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act...'" < more>

"She talked about leaving her mother sitting at the tavern across the street and asked me about cats I never owned and a boss I never had..." < more>

"...the number 22 is associated with spiritual knowledge, light, insight, and revelation... the first time the word 'love,' for example, occurs..." < more>

"... you start out with Satan assaulting [them] ... and by the book's end he's attacking Paul directly..." < more>

"You're told Huckleberry Finn did, but Moby Dick is really where the template was broken from England..." < more>

"Graham... relishes in sharing discrepancies between the famous statements by Jesus Christ in the New Testament and those that founded the Roman Catholic..." < more>

"He works out the circumstances so, at exactly the right moment, that young couple is moved from Nazareth to Bethlehem where He had said 700 years before He was going to be born..." < more>

"The working title is now `Lisa's Guide to the Bible,` and my sincerest hope (I know I sound like the biggest broken record!) is to have a rough draft completed within six weeks..." < more>

"You believe what you want to believe and I believe what I want to believe, and what you believe is true and good and what I believe is true and good..." < more>

"The sad reality of what happens today is the vast majority of the earth says, 'I don't need that; I'll earn it myself!' And that's just asinine stupidity because it's not going to work..." < more>

"He's all tore up inside, internally... he was 'troubled on every side; WITHOUT were fightings, within were fears...'" < more>

"... no money-grabbing scheme of the past or of today's unscrupulous television hucksters even comes close to the sale of indulgences..." < more>

"Hitler's theory of the 'purity of blood,' which he sought to maintain through extermination of the Jews (unopposed by the Vatican), had its roots in ancient occultism involving a mythical Nordic Garden of Eden in the far North known as Hyperborea..." < more>

"...dislocated joints, torn and seared flesh, internal injuries, broken bones on the rack and other devices, mended by doctors so they could be torn asunder again by fresh torture..." < more>

"Thirty scientists... attended the conference, called to explore... 'whether sentient life forms exist on other worlds...'" < more>

"I arrived here in northeastern Ohio one week ago after learning my step-dad, Richard M. Stewart, went home to be with the Lord just two days shy of his 88th birthday..." < more>

"If you mingle yourself with the seed of men, the implication is you aren't one of the seed of men. You are from a different source..." < more>

"In each vignette a grotesquely aroused, unkempt man has sexual relations with an attractive young woman... decidedly more elegant than her partner..." < more>

"What kind of insecure and cruel God murders children so that his followers will obey him, and will tell stories about him?' he writes... 'This is the behavior of a serial killer...'" < more>

"That's always the issue. It's never how much can you do to make yourself right, because you know the more you dig, the more you just dig the hole deeper..." < more>

"It all goes back to... when they built a tower... and they corrupted the constellations and the signs and messages in the heavens into pagan use..." < more>

"Prophecy... isn't just telling people what's going to happen in the future; it's... 'This is what I'm going to do,' and then making it happen..." < more>

"Mom's that way about her boy, especially when he's not living up to the full potential she knows he has within himself..." < more>

"'Go find you a prostitute and marry her,' [he was told] So, Hosea married a woman named 'Gomer'. Somebody told me years ago that name means fruitcake..." < more>

"That's where you get the idea of ownership of property and so forth. People who live in the chaotic point of a dot, they have no concept of property ownership. There are whole cultures that live in that pattern of time..." < more>

"A key thing I was taught... is that inner beauty is what's really behind true creativity..." < more>

"The question everybody has when they see it is, 'How come everybody's not teaching this?! Don't they know...?!'" < more>

"If we tell them you're my wife they're gonna think you're a good looking gal and they're gonna want to take you, so let's tell them you're my sister..." < more>

"I get what I want and, not only that, people need to appreciate me, they need to care for me, they need to respect me, they need to value me, and I have the right to rule over them..." < more>

"Nationalism is subverted by the satanic policy of internationalism at the Tower of Babel, and God is going to give up the nations of the earth as He chooses out one great nation..." < more>

"He has on a straw hat and gives this incredibly soulful, intense stare - one that is directed straight at me whenever I sit in bed and watch TV..." < more>

"And all of sudden, the guy at the bottom yells, 'I said, Do you want some more?!' and the guy at the top says 'Aah-bi-dee-buh-dah!'" < more>

"[He] took over that whole Mesopotamian basin and all of that area we call Iraq, and Palestine, and Jordan, and Israel, and Saudi Arabia -- all of that area..." < more>

"'Many of my closest friends,' she added, 'forget just how emotionally withdrawn I was before I met you...'" < more>

"He told me, 'Depression results from two things: Unrealistic expectations and misplaced dependencies' ...[I told him] I thought my problem was loneliness. He said, 'Well, that's a separate issue...'" < more>

"...my accountant told me over lunch one afternoon how he had indeed read the Book of Romans per my suggestion but couldn't get over how a certain 'bizarre' topic kept coming up over and over and over..." < more>

"Do you really 'heal the sick'? I would be very specific with them that I did not mean isolated cases of healing scattered hither and yonder...." < more>

"Job knew that his hope was to stand in resurrection on the earth -- he didn't hope to die and go to heaven..." < more>

"Let any one compare the nimbus around the head of the daughter... and he will see how exactly they correspond. Could anyone possibly believe that all this coincidence could be accidental..." < more>

"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof..." < more>

"He said, 'I killed a lion and I killed a bear; now I've killed me a giant...'" < more>

"She said to me with tears in her eyes... 'Being a sensitive, sentimental person stinks. It just eats you up...'" < more>

"There is no person perhaps in sacred or profane history around whom so many legends have been grouped . . . and there are few whose authentic history is more concise..." < more>

"In later life he wore a beard... and generally he was remarkable for the grace of his figure and countenance... and of immense strength and agility..." < more>

"Lamentations says that a mother will 'eat her baby a span long.' ... Things are going to be so bad that... mothers... will wind up eating their own children in order to survive...!" < more>

"'We burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her...'" < more>

"It is nearly impossible to find a teenage girl in our community who hasn't read [it]. Now, I am finding 20-30 year-old-women engrossed. Every single one of them..." < more>

"As a former hard-news journalist... I can remember the torture of having to write a breaking news story in longhand and then orally repeat it to an editor over the telephone..." < more>

"He didn't put them under glass. He didn't put them in a Brinks armored car. He broke 'em! I mean, he broke those things before anybody ever got to read them. Imagine that...!" < more>

"Who remembers the Armenians? The United States may remember, but our president can't call it genocide..." < more>

"The conclusion is that nothing is really right or wrong, but what is right and wrong for me. This is nothing but a denial of any absolute truths..." < more>

"It is true that if there's no heaven, no hell, no God, and Christ wasn't raised from the dead, if you live in obedience to the truth of the Word of God you will live a better life..." < more>

"A preacher from Wisconsin made the point that... for example, Mary would have had to change His stinky diapers until He could be potty-trained..." < more>

"[It's a] story about three kids who band together with an eccentric biology teacher and an armed ecoterrorist to stop a buffoonish Texas oilman from illegally extracting petroleum from the habitat of an endangered Florida panther..." < more>

"People seem to really get into the idea that not only are they headed straight for hell and they'd have it no other way but that they're by far not alone in this preferred future..." < more>

"There are 13 letters in the motto 'E Pluribus Unum.' ...13 original colonies... 13 stars and 13 stripes in the original flag. 'Don't Tread on Me,' ...13 letters long... The confederate flag had a cross on it with 13 stars overlaying the cross..." < more>

"It's interesting to see how the Jews live and what they believe.... They believe what their fathers believed -- which is how we believe..." < more>

"He said my friend's face looked gray and lifeless and had a little bit of blood on it. His facial expression was one of, `I can't ccontrol what's happening...`" < more>

"I realized he was right -- I had to do something drastic or I was going to kill myself..." < more>

Anybody who really studies the life of America's most famous satirist knows he wasn't someone who didn't believe in God; he was someone who... laid into Him anything and everything..." < more>

"Do you need to find that in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune? No, it's recorded in the Word of God ... So now... there's the miracle that confirms it all..." < more>

"'What exactly was Balaam's ass? Or Dido's lament? Or Job's tears?' Perhaps most people have a vague idea of such things, but the specific origin of the term, its history and background are sketchy..." < more>

"Well, I'll just show you how dumb he is; I'll keep a secret he won't figure out..." < more>

"When Oprah's Book Club first put the mega-bestseller-self-help-New-Age book, 'The Secret,' on the American household map, I immediately thought, 'Aha, of course Satan was going to get around to making that word look like his invention...!' " < more>

"People say, 'Well, in the Depression the real estate market went to pot. The stock market went to pot.' [But] If you have something of the Big Picture you would know where to be and where to go..." < more>

"Why would God make me wiser than any other creature?! Why would God make me beautiful?! Why would God make me the object of adoration and esteem...?!" < more>

"We are standing in the vortex of a cultural sea change that will transform our nation and world in ways only seen a handful of times in human history. The 'Winter' season for America..." < more>

"...every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold..." < more>

"You see, rather than us being created in the perfect image and likeness of God, Adam was created in that image and we were born in Adam's image..." < more>

"He is the first of the Great World Teachers to cover two zodiacal cycles..." < more>

"'I don't want to kill you,' Heath Ledger's psycho Joker tells Christian Bale's stalwart Batman. 'You complete me...'" < more>

"So if I got to fight someone else's 'taker mode', well, then, I just need to be a better fighter than they are, so I develop skills -- not at solving problems, but at winning wars..." < more>

"Have you ever noticed you can talk to somebody and not have a conversation? It's where you simply don't connect; you don't relate..." < more>

"If life were as simple and things as little complicated as... the hackneyed sermon of the average clergyman, it would not be so very difficult to make one's way..." < more>

"Rarely do you go to someone's home and there's a complete stranger there. If they're feasting with the 'little flock,' that clearly tells us there's fellowship..." < more>

"The future generation will need to be able to perceive and identify words of understanding from the words of deception and foolishness..." < more>

"If we were operating under the Jews' law system tonight, a lot of you would have to take your clothes off..." < more>

"As the bus roams around the city of Chicago, making frequent stops, it will be proclaiming the message of Oneness of Allah, and inviting humanity to study the true faith of all the Prophets of Allah (peace be upon them)..." < more>

"It's hard to spend too much time engaged in meth-fueled sodomy with your boyfriend when you've got a nightly copulation meeting with your wife..." < more>

"You can study that and see how, when you understand it, you ARE rooted and grounded in love, and after that, now you're on the mountain peak, looking out, comprehending..." < more>

"Whenever the anatomy of human emotions is explored, I always think back to Henry H. Schulte, who asked 'What do you think is the strongest emotion?' which he said was jealousy..." < more>

"A voracious reader, being Norwegian, he'd read enough on Viking and Scandinavian history to choke a sperm whale..." < more>

"What the world refuses to get is that the Jewish religion is the ONLY religion God ever gave in human history...!" < more>

"That's when they did the radiation implants, and when I woke up from that I looked down at my feet and there stood a nurse with a Geiger counter..." < more>

"Sister, you were coming along there with me for awhile, then you quit. What happened...?" < more>

"People say the answer to all of that is to go back and develop some new methods and some new forms... But the form and methodology is never the answer..." < more>

"3, 7, 10 and 12 are identified as perfect numbers and 3 is a lucky number representing divine completeness. It's the number of resurrection..." < more>

"You know, if a big old man-eating lion came in the back door of your church building you'd have had a new door and you'd be the one who made it! Gonna tie a knot in the devil's tail. Are you nuts...?!" < more>

"Write this in a book and note it in a tablet for the generations to come when I'm not talking... and they can't find the Word, they'll have it written..." < more>

"Through Harry Potter books, printed globally in 40 different languages, kids as young as kindergarten age are being introduced to human sacrifice, the sucking of blood from dead animals, possession by spirit beings, on and on..." < more>

"Listen, I give a piece over here, and 1,500 years later I'm going to give a piece over there, and when you put those pieces together, and they don't contradict but they operate in harmony, what does that testify...?" < more>

"You don't have to worry about someone living in a whale's belly for three days and three nights and you don't have to worry about it not being a whale because it was..." < more>

"You get into this conundrum and you say, 'Well, now what do you do?' What you do is you recognize the futility of human reasoning..." < more>

"His head with hair, His face, His eyes, His mouth, His lips, His voice, His nose and nostrils, His hands, His fingers and His feet..." < more>

"Is it a simple, verifiable fact that stealing is wrong or should all of us go on what we personally feel is right regarding other people's property...? < more>

"'If I'm godlike, why would I want to stoop down to be angel-like?' You see what a con he was pulling on her? She was already godlike..." < more>

"Watch whatever it is you think you're going to get purpose and meaning in life out of... watch it long enough and it will disappoint you..." < more>

"We don't believe in censorship; just put it out there! It's okay, just hang pictures of naked people all around... if you don't want to look at it, turn it off; don't buy it...!" < more>

"It's called the 'sunum bonum' of life, and what philosopher didn't look for that...?" < more>

"As of tomorrow, I will be fully moved into my new tiny, tiny bedroom inside a converted two-bedroom apartment..." < more>

"Why can't you change the wording to something simple like, 'How do you figure you've lived so long...?'" < more>

"There are some places where you'll go through something and then come back to it, as if to say, 'You got that? Come back here and let's start and do that again...'" < more>

"Christians will escape the worst of what's coming through the Rapture... when Jesus Christ meets Believers 'in the air' as they are exited off the planet..." < more>

"[He] delivered me a real revelation when he said God doesn't respond to our tears; He simply doesn't deal in emotions when we converse with Him..." < more>

"'At the time, I thought I might be having a stroke or heart attack -- or both! I thought I might go unconscious and die. ... I was so paralyzed with fear ...'" < more>

"'One can dispute the theology, one can dispute the traditions, (but) one can't dispute the senator's faith, commitment, his love of family and his authenticity. Barack Obama's the real deal, and even Republicans can see it...'" < more>

"'I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it...?'" < more>

"King Solomon lived in such over-the-top opulence even the cup he used to rinse his teeth out at night after brushing was made of gold..." < more>

" We don't have the technology to do something they could do 5,000 years ago. They had wisdom. They had understanding. They had capacities and skills..." < more>

"'I would have loved to become a sportscaster. Listen to how good I am.' He then picked up my tract and began to read from it as if he were giving play-by-play action from a live game..." < more>

"What must be remembered is that in the Arab culture of Muhammad's day, epileptic seizures were interpreted as a religious sign of either demonic possession or divine visitation..." < more>

"When I told him I moved to Manhattan in 1999 and then, in 2003, quit a good-paying job on Park Avenue to write from home about the Bible, he simply responded, 'Don't you know people don't want to hear that kind of stuff...?'" < more>

"By the time you get to the end of the chapter, you see that man is a fallen, deluded, deceived, self-righteous buck-passer..." < more>

"Then, without warning, he jumped out of his chair, coffee in hand, and muttered a bunch of swear words toward me as he exited. I tell you, he was the trick to pulling me out of a real funk..." < more>

"Your emotions think anything your mind is thinking is true. Anything your mind thinks, you project on the screen of your thought processes and your emotions think is true..." < more>

"Let's make this clear; if you go to execute your last will and testament, when does it take effect? Before you die you can always change it, can't you...?" < more>

"All these hallucinations you hear in mythology about how He went and did this thing over here and did that thing over there and all these goofball traditions that people come up with..." < more>

"Back then you didn't have a dial to dial up; you had little crystal sets and whatever station was brodadcasting -- the nearest one is what you listened to..." < more>

"You can come with me into my study and I've got a dozen different authors, different schools of theology with the systematic theology books. Look through all of them..." < more>

"We're going to develop one perfect body of knowledge that everybody can agree to and science is what's going to help us do that because we believe all knowledge is a unit..." < more>

"R.C. Sproul is a saved Gentile, a member of the Church the Body of Christ, but he doesn't know the fullness of what that means to him because he's caught in a system that won't let him study the Bible literally..." < more>

"The librarian in charge of that great storehouse of information was a Greek named Eratosthenes, who was also a geographer. He worked out a formula for measuring the circumference of the Earth..." < more>

"They would follow him around hurling insults at him. They formed what they called the Hellfire Club. They would say, "We're going to hell, burn in the fire and glad of it...'" < more>

"...there are three instances when killing is authorized: self-defense, capital punishment and military action authorized by a government against the enemy in the battle for the preservation of national freedom..." < more>

"And now the most primitive creed on Earth is trying to get the most advanced weapons on Earth. And we'd better wake up. We'd better hear the jarring gong of self-preservation and act to preserve our lives, our cities, our children, our civilization, in time..." < more>

"Imagine the people walking by, staring at you, throwing bubble gum wrappers at you, Dr. Pepper cans, Budweiser cans. You know, if you're lying there every day, that's over a year! People would get a little tired of it..." < more>

"Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were ev'ry stalk on earth a quill, And ev'ry man a scribe by trade; To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry; Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Tho' stretch'd from sky to sky..." < more>

"Well, there used to be these old pagan Indians on our place and their spirits are still haunting it..." < more>

"The come-on was, 'Have a tribe; don't be a little-bitty house over there. Let's go get the big things going...!'" < more>

"The pope had to go home without a Sikh gift since representatives of that faith had declined the offer to meet the pope when the Secret Service barred them from wearing their... swords anywhere near the pontiff..." < more>

"The economic downturn has done little, if anything, to dampen this enthusiasm among students, who say that what they learn in class can translate into practical skills and careers..." < more>

"This isn't as strange a notion as it sounds. Yes, there was John F. Kennedy ...But ... Kennedy sought to divorce his religion from his office..." < more>

"What even my own family has a hard time understanding about me is I like being a hobo, always heading into a new adventure. If anything, my return to Chicago a year ago has been difficult..." < more>

"A prime directive of Greek myth was to honor and be generous to strangers, for no one could be certain just who was human and who might be a god in disguise..." < more>

"The nothern kingdom apostatized more than the southern kingdom, and for almost 300 years, there was civil strife..." < more>

"While yoga classes throughout the nation have been letting dogs join their companions of the mat, 'doga' offers yoga from a dog's perspective..." < more>

"I simply didn't want to risk having to spend yet another bone-chiller in the flattened-out back of... 'Lisa's Homeless Shelter'..." < more>

"There are cactuses and fruit trees, a health food shop, the oldest hardware store in town and a [...] five-foot tall sculpture of a phallus..." < more>

"Once he came to its headquarters, serfs returfed the brown parched weeds and laid down a blanket of fresh green grass just so his eyes would not be disturbed by unsightly faded patches..." < more>

"If it comes to religious topics everything is already said. I am an agnostic, so I don't learn anything from them..." < more>

"In addition to the humongous metal-crafted worship tents and main auditorium, there's the Beach Cafe, Terrace Cafe, Baptismal Pool, Prayer Garden, Children's Building, Nursery Building, Student Zone, Green Room, Plaza, on and on. Shuttles cart people back and forth from the parking lots..." < more>

"Just yesterday, jogging on the beach in Corona Del Mar and watching the waves hitting the beautiful dark jagged rocks along the shore line, I thought, 'How could you get any better than having one of these houses here on the cliff overlooking all this...?'" < more>

"The reason I invited them both, first, they'll tell you the truth. They're not just going to beat around the bush. They'll tell you what they believe..." < more>

"We can remake this world as it should be. Believe in me, and I shall redeem not just you but your country -- nay, we can become a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world and make this time different from all the rest..." < more>
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