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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.

It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others. They rant. They lecture. They scold. This incapacity for...

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it?That is not faith. That is hate. He sighed. And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens.

Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.

Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows....

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

God and the decision he renders is correct. God doesn't punish anyone out of the blue. God knows what He is doing.

One, as in the singular God. One, as in the Lord's creation, Adam.

You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished business. Imagine going back: the structure is familiar ,but the door is...

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

There are different forms of seduction, and the kind I have witnessed in Persian dancers is so unique, such a mixture of subtlety and brazenness, I cannot find a Western equivalent to compare it to. I...

She resented the fact that her veil, which to her was a symbol of scared relationship to god, had now become an instrument of power, turning the women who wore them into political signs and symbols.

How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?

Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we...

I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded photographs of women. Gradually, her work became more...

He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand.

In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord.

Then Adam boldly said, 'Lord, what if I am willing to bestow on that soul some of the years of my life?' And God answered Adam, saying, 'If that is your wish, that I will grant.' Adam, we are told,...

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain - no matter how smart or accomplished - they cry, they yearn, they hurt. We all want the same things: comfort, love,...

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. I have come to believe that genuine democracy cannot exist without the...

A eulogy is no more than a summation of memories, and we will never forget you, because we cannot forget you, because we will miss you every day. To imagine a world without you in it is to imagine a...

simplicity and surrender to the universe.

And slowly a discussion begins - as Morrie has wanted all along - about the effect of silence on human relations. Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.

That's the thing when people leave us too suddenly, isn't it? We always have so many questions.

Yossarian - the very sight of the name made Colonel Cathcart shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word subversive itself. It was like seditious and...

Some of our greatest problems in ministering to people is that they knew us back before we came to the Lord

Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?

But today is not yesterday, and the Reb could do nothing but listen to the worst imaginable words-We couldn't save her-told to him by a doctor he had never met before that night. How could this...

If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho...even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.