If you do wrestle with it and find the spring of its opening it will be a place to rest in all the days of your life.
One of these days you who are now a 'babe' in Christ shall be a 'father' in the church. Hope for this great thing; but hope for it as a gift of grace, and not as the wages of work, or as the product of your own energy.
---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.
He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.
...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.
We should all celebrate the magnitude of diverse and unique souls that live in our world today, for it is an essence that makes our lives colourful every single day.
We are always waiting, aren't we? All in a state of hesitation and held breath. Sometimes it's glorious like a storm at the end of a hot day.
I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.
A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.
And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve.
But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
God loves you even on your blackest days, and He will always, be there to guide you home. All you have to do is look for the light of His love.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” "Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.
I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.
She was the real treasure, more precious than sapphires, diamonds and gold. At the core of his ancient, cynical heart, he was an acquisitive creature, after all.
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom
And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.
