#Faith

"Cruel Love [10w] Cruel love helps turn out excellent,competitive, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog children."

"Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/"

"Break All the Rules of Poetry Place no limits on your poetry.Live a little.Break all the fucking rules!If it comes deep from the wellsprings of your imagination,the woolgathering of dreamers ~it is poetry ~no matter what anyone says."

"The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned."

"There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?”I shook my head, inching away from him.“Faith,” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith."

"No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true."

"Talented [10w] Being called talented brings with it more hatred than applause."

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

"Witticisms The greatest reward for coming up with some witty turn of phraseis that some day, if you're lucky,it may wind up in a fortune cookieat the very Chinese restaurant you're eating in!But if you get a big head about it,know it wasn't the flattery,it was the MSG."

"Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you."

"Children and Food [10w] Once children order like grown-upsfood's lost its sweet innocence."

"Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real."

"Poorly Hidden [10w] We're incapable of hiding arrogance, ambition or being in love."

"Fulfillment [10w] Sometime fulfillment goes beyond the date Amazon delivers your order."

"And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing."

"Pond(er) This [10w] Nobody wants to be:'Big fish in a little pond."

"Poets Hate Poets [10w] Poets hate poets who are more talented than they are."

"In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda."

"Small Degrees Lobster don't fathom they're being cooked,like relationships being snuffed out in small degreesbut in reverse, as love begins to freeze over, trapping you in a impenetrable ceiling of ice until you drown."

"The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality."