Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.
Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.
When you choose the path, you choose the destination.
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.
Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.
Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.
Application of your faith will change your life
Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.
Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.
I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.
You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore
Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.
...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.
Money doesn't talk it screams
Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.
Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn`t all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.
I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear
We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.
By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.
Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself.
Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.
I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity.
If you don’t find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.
The only difference between Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. is that at least Vegas has the decency to admit the town is full of hookers and crooks.
Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.
If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.
I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly. "I love you," the voice whispered back.
There's a big difference between not knowing the truth and not liking it.
In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.
So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.
The Second Amendment, like all of our rights, is reliant on a moral and virtuous people. Without that, nothing else matters. Man can not rule himself if... moral sentiment is missing.
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.
Anyone who speaks of punishing their political enemies in on the wrong side. It is clearly evil and we have a responsibility to say so.
We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life.
Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.
For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn’t be more wrong.
If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside.
Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.
God takes attendance every day.
It's clear to me that if we raise children with no moral compass, we are planting the seeds of our own destruction.
People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!
[On Obama Administration] "I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people,
Virtually everything we told you about the healthcare bill now has proven to be true, and nearly everything they told you was a lie.
Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.
There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain.
I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as well.
STORY” is more than half of the word “HISTORY”. And that’s no accident.
We have an issue with kids' having unfettered access to the worst the Internet has to offer instead of the best that our communities can provide.
If you don’t draw a line in the sand, you will just keep drifting. You have to know what you’re willing to do and not willing to do right now.
I know it's crazy, but I actually prefer to prepare for disaster and worst-case scenarios, rather than panic once they do occur.
Well,” Nicholas said seriously, “I think that all good gifts come ultimately from God. It wouldn’t do for the messenger to take credit for his master’s work.
...progressives start small. They introduce 'commonsense' regulations and restrictions that will supposedly save lives. Then, each time the public's attention is captured, they push further.
You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.
What have you done with your knowledge and priesthood power that those without have not done this week? If you cannot answer that with power every day, what does that say about you?
If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.
I can't read Mason & Dixon, since my mind's so shitty, I can't process it!
...the last official act of any government is to loot their own treasury.
Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was.
The government," he told me one night, "is there to act as a safety net, not a candy machine.
Because even though I was afraid to admit I, I felt like a door had been cracked in my soul. It was a tiny opening, to be sure, but there was the hint of something new in the air, something unexpected.
If you catch them in an early lie, they learn their lesson and so they don’t continue to do it. But if you don’t call them on early lies, they only get worse, bigger, and more dangerous.
United States and abroad reject and condemn violent jihad. But it doesn’t follow
