#matt

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#brilliantly #half #how #idea #matter

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becomes #christian #christian life #continuation #day

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#american dream #away #before #came #challenges

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #appeal #been #between #christianity

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#afforded #brutally #day #does #ever

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#blessings #country #efforts #ever #happen

With 'The Host,' I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. I'd love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb; he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#amazing #beard #ben #ben affleck #big

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#events #happiness #matter #mind #tides

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find. ↗

— James A. Michener

#fail #find #journey #make #matter

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. ↗

— Henry Miller

#appears #enslaved #familiar #fear #guise