If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.
You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
If we're not a good steward of what God gives us, he takes it away. I think that's what happened. I wasn't a good steward of the gift that he gave me in this line of work. I abused it, so he took it away.
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Everything in life is a double-edged sword.
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.
Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.
I'm thankful God really slowed me down and showed me, whatever he had gave to me, he can take it away.
After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed, and it's both a blessing and a curse, but you live with it.
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.
Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.
Good luck has its storms.
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
There are always good times and bad times.
