Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.
What's a man worth without love? $.89 worth of chemicals. Hawkeye Pierce
God doesn't want merely action but hearts driving action.
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than...
Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.
Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
