C.F. Joyce Quotes

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways.

If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

It was not a life, if lived without love.

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.

I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...

I say, Ich liebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler! and farewell.

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

Everyone's story matters.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.

No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.

We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.

Where the mind goes the man follows.

The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.

The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word.

The mind is often an area where "people play around with sin".

I like to describe worry or anxiety as spending today trying to figure out tomorrow. Let's learn to use the time God has given us for today!

Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime. – Joyce Meyer

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

If you are lost, I will find you. If you are in danger, I will protect you, " he said seriously. "It's what a gentleman does, Elysse."~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neil