Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.

Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.

A wise sufferer will look not inward, but outward. There is no more effective healer than a wounded healer, and in the process the wounded healer's own scars may fade away.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking - glass self. You become what the most important person in your life {wife, father, boss, etc.} thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed...

In God's presence I feel small because I am small.

a top hat - a deliberate act of rebellion on Ike's part that shocked the protocol mavens. For their part, the Eisenhowers had refused to enter the White House for a pre-inauguration cup of coffee,...

you liked him so much you just hated to let him down. He was, and is, all but worshiped by the men of E Company.

✓ Success is becoming more effective ✓ It is the mindset that changes everything ✓ The seven creative beliefs ✓ The brain can be directed ✓ Harmony between body and mind: the path to...

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

We're often wrong at predicting who or what will transform us. Encountering certain people, books, music, places, or ideas … at just the right time can immediately make our lives happier, richer,...

Forms rather than the flame. Andrew Murray said, When the Spirit does not work in power, it is proof that another spirit has been allowed to take its place.

Now the deer moved through snow, snow that blew sideways, frosting the perfectly upright walls of Detroit's dead and monumental heart, vast black tines of brick reaching up to vanish in the white sky....

So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't...

Be like Grace: Wear large, dark glasses and a filmy scarf over your hair next time you go out in public. People will totally wonder who the mysterious beauty is, standing in line behind them at...

"Yes, I'm sorry you won't be coming with us," Chloe said to Alex. "But please don't worry. I'm certain The Lord has another plan for you." She glanced at me. "For both of you." "Oh, I can assure you,"...

"He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night." Then Meena said, "I'm confused then. I thought the prince of darkness was the devil." ... "Wait," Meena said,...

Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get...

I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.'

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for Stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.

You're advertising the fact that there's a community here - it's not just this industry that's manufacturing bands, it's a happening scene where people are feeding off each other.

By itself, one small win may seem unimportant, writes Dr. Karl Weick in a seminal paper for American Psychologist in 1984. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern...

In 1960, about 40 percent of female teachers scored in the top quintile of IQ and other aptitude tests, with only 8 percent in the bottom. Twenty years later, fewer than half as many were in the top...

the Internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it into the hands of those who do not.

Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; does this mean that marriage causes happiness? Not necessarily. The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get...

At night Tyrion would oft hear her praying. A waste of words. If there are gods to listen, they are monstrous gods who torment us for their sport. Who else would make a world like this, so full of...

"Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped her. Her cheeks turned a bright pink, and he was afraid she was about to start...

My Lord Father! How joyful it is to find you here! Lord Tywin did not move from his seat, but cast a long, searching glance at his deformed son. "I see, the rumors of your death were unfounded." "I'm...