We can live indifferently to what people say
That, she said, is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your...
Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them,...
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously;...
Western things stop being so by repetition
Memories streamed over her, and she sat up, images converging in her mind's eye, the sneaker wave of grief catching her in its riptide pull once again, leaving her washed ashore, bereft, with two deep...
There I realized that she is a pleasure and joy and that she is my spiritual and my life, and that the world without a sorter is not equal to an atom of ashes.
What you told me did not change my way of thinking and I repeat that I would love to be your lifelong partner, but I want you to think very carefully about whether that man is me or not. If your...
The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.
Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere...
No matter what doctors say, anger in human beings is often one of the enemy's traps.
I believe I'm very happy.
Well, Hallelujah and pass the ammunition. Company for dinner! And and eligible bachelor at that, without three wives or even one as far as I know. Anatole, the schoolteacher, is twenty=four eyars of...
Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do...
- So turn around quickly and tell me everything about yourself!...
Never mock a tender heart.
Frankly, if I walk into your house and you don't have two hundred books somewhere that you haven't read yet, I don't trust you.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell
Perhaps parents' greatest heritage to pass on to their children is the ability to perceive the multitude of God's daily blessings and to respond with continual gratitude. We should be "abounding in...
Real gold fears no fire.
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
What materials do you like best?...
There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.
that weddings are far more than marriage ceremonies; we know that they are occasions for family stock-taking and catharsis; that
The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
Let's fly away and live forever
I am in love with stopping. In his way it is an art, if you think about it. Quitting well requires an innate sense of beauty; We must know how to hear the moment of the turning point, just when the...
These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.
"It's very bad," Svejk continued, "that a person suddenly begins to give himself to a philosophical considerations, as this always brings a smell to delirium tremens."
Conrad had gotten his ambassadorship by being a big bundler and raising a lot of money for the previous president. He reminded Harvath of Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In addition to being a...
the video Homesick for Heaven:
Delaying giving as a strategy for future kingdom building is risky. We could hold on to assets out of fear of letting go or unwillingness to surrender control to the Lord. As long as money lies within...
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
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....
