I don't, she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.
What does the fish remind you of? Other fish. And what do the other fish remind you of? Other fish. Major Sanderson sat back disappointedly. Do you like fish? Not especially.
Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space...
Help me resist the urge to dispute whether things are true or false which is like arguing whether it is day or night. It is always one or the other somewhere in the world. Together, we can penetrate a...
It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. -OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The truth is that life will break us and burn us at some point on the journey. This is not pessimistic or cynical but descriptive of the geography of being alive. It is part of how we are transformed...
We are broken open, or we willfully shed.
The things that frighten us just want to be held.
Friendships are nice. So is competence.
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no...
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the door of ill and opened the door of good.
- {...} Once I read, I declare obediently, that there was a great battle in which a Swedish king fell along with his faithful horse. They took both carcasses to Sweden, and now the two codes are...
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them -- a mother's approval, a father's nod -- are covered by moments...
The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. It's a fiction designed, we hope, to reveal a truth. There is no "pure" language. The only "pure...
Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
"Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the center of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the...
The book of Psalms has been and still is the irreplaceable devotional guide, prayer book, and hymnal of the people of God. The Hebrew title is "the book of praises" {tehillim}.
Americans believe that alcoholism is a disease and the alcoholic a sick person who needs help and treatment. The NCA
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.
Well. On which aspect of our ill-advised doings are we about to lecture each other? I have very little to say. As I recall, I exhausted the matter on several other occasions.
The crossroads may not be of your own seeking, but at least the road you choose will be your own.
November 15, 2014 "Be Given An Explanation for Whyyyyyyyyyyi All Bene Finced To Leave The Comfortable Home and Come To This Terrible Place, Who Must Hen Been the Great Wrong Ever Committed To HIM IN...
Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well.
Podesta clicked on the folder containing the digital photos he'd taken of Candace Martin in a car with
building had turned out to be murders. She
"I'm already fed up with this," he exclaimed the second cable. "So you're a happy man," said Svejk. - Some people never get fed up.
I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife but it detects him. 'Tis a...
One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's...
The only thing going on was a war, and no one seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew away from him and thought he was crazy.
Don't be such an ass, Scheisskopf. People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.
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...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
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?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
