“Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.”
Source: Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers
“The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.”
Source: Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers
“Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.”
Source: Dead Pig Collector
“Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.”
Source: A Woman's Walk with God: Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit
“Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
“Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq].”
“One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth's crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot.”
“When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.”
“Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.”
Source: Collected Works of James Hogg: Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories: Scottish Classics: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Three Perils of Man, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Shepherd’s Calendar and Other Tales