Frank E. Peretti quote: "Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore."

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifl...
FRANK E. PERETTI

Spirit, who are you?' Andy demanded.
Bobby remained silent, his entire body strained, his lips ...
FRANK E. PERETTI

let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of yo...
FRANK E. PERETTI

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while ...
FRANK E. PERETTI

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overc...
FRANK E. PERETTI

I'm here, Satan," he said. "I can't see you, and maybe you can move faster than I can, but I'm still...
FRANK E. PERETTI

Tal was looking at Hank when he said, "Just a moment. I want to hear it one more time."
As they...
FRANK E. PERETTI

When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get ...
FRANK PERETTI

There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either....
FRANK PERETTI

I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious.
FRANK PERETTI

We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn...
FRANK PERETTI

Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but...
FRANK PERETTI

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason...
FRANK PERETTI

I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the e...
FRANK PERETTI

My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure...
FRANK PERETTI

I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in th...
FRANK PERETTI

First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought...
FRANK PERETTI

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want...
FRANK PERETTI

The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.
FRANK PERETTI

Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults.
FRANK PERETTI

So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe...
JONAH PERETTI

I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-of...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're r...
JONAH PERETTI

I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom alwa...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I think that with podcasts, a lot of things are about fostering and having a direct connection with ...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup ...
ELSA PERETTI

I always write in pencil, so I can erase.
ELSA PERETTI

When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don&...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
ELSA PERETTI

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I thought we were a little nervous. It was a quiet bus ride, but (Queensbury's first goal) was a wak...
WALT PERETTI

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your relig...
JONAH PERETTI

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear s...
ELSA PERETTI

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollar...
JONAH PERETTI

I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance fo...
ELSA PERETTI

It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me f...
JONAH PERETTI

When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's re...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much...
CHELSEA PERETTI

Sometimes when I'm nervous, that's when the most interesting things happen.
CHELSEA PERETTI

I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.
CHELSEA PERETTI

Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligen...
CHELSEA PERETTI

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your ...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I really want to interview Larry David.
CHELSEA PERETTI

On tour, it's either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You're just looking for any proof th...
CHELSEA PERETTI

'Chels-emojis' are in the works. I use emojis heavily in life, and I think a lot of people d...
CHELSEA PERETTI

We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung ...
CHELSEA PERETTI

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced ...
CHELSEA PERETTI

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usu...
CHELSEA PERETTI

It's pretty satisfying to use an image when you don't have a great articulate response. And ...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.
ELSA PERETTI

I like to do things that are classic.
ELSA PERETTI

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to...
ELSA PERETTI

Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.
ELSA PERETTI

What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.
ELSA PERETTI

I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear what...
ELSA PERETTI

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and ...
ELSA PERETTI

I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly...
ELSA PERETTI

The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.
ELSA PERETTI

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
ELSA PERETTI

Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country.
ELSA PERETTI

I can't copy nature.
ELSA PERETTI

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain...
ELSA PERETTI

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry desig...
ELSA PERETTI

Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a ...
ELSA PERETTI

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope the...
ELSA PERETTI

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a hig...
ELSA PERETTI

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on...
EAZY-E

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
E. LOCKHART

I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's r...
EAZY-E

Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
EAZY-E

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
EAZY-E

Compton is my city.
EAZY-E

I put Compton on the map.
EAZY-E

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
EAZY-E

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to...
EAZY-E

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
EAZY-E

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
EAZY-E

If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change t...
EAZY-E

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like...
EAZY-E

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
EAZY-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
EAZY-E

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
EAZY-E

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out th...
EAZY-E

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
EAZY-E

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gott...
EAZY-E

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
EAZY-E

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
EAZY-E

Cussing ain't for everybody.
EAZY-E

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
E. LOCKHART

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART

She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.
E. LOCKHART

Always do what you're afraid to do.
...
I will prove myself strong when they think I am s...
E. LOCKHART

Be a little kinder than you have to.
E. LOCKHART

Sarcasm spoils reproof.
E. WIGGLESWORH

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify wit...
EAZY-E

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, ...
SHEILA E.

Always do what you're afraid to do.
E. LOCKHART

Yang sudah terlanjur terjadi tidak bisa kita batakan. Kita yan harus memutuskan, mau bangkit atau di...
ARUMI E.

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Ama...
E. NESBIT

For Gat with everything, everything. Cady
E. LOCKHART

They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage...
E. LOCKHART

Be a little kinder than you have to.
Never eat anything bigger than your ass
Do not accept...
E. LOCKHART

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E. LOCKHART

So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a be...
E. NESBIT

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
E. RUTHERFORD

If you have the desire, you are halfway there.
E. CRIQUE

The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.
E. BRIAN

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of ge...
E. F.SCHUMACKER

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nomina...
SHEILA E.

We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy...
E. LOCKHART

The universe was good because he was in it.
E. LOCKHART

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could ...
E. LOCKHART

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
E. LOCKHART

I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person,...
E. LOCKHART

Ohhh, I LOVE dim sum! What is it?
LAUREN-E

As if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.
E. LOCKHART

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
E. LOCKHART

It's good to be loved, even thought it will not last
E. LOCKHART

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heav...
E. NESBIT

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

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Frank E. Peretti

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

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