When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau...
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our i...
We live in a culture of reductionism. Or better, we are living in the aftermath of a culture of reductionism, and I believe we have reduced the complexity and diversity of the Scriptures to systematic theologies that insist on ideological conformity,...
Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. W...
We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, and grant their country most-favored-nation status (po...
An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.
Nobody gets out of the bed to sleep on the floor.
He who prays a lot is afraid of something.
What a pity it is that we've lived the lives that we've lived.
What a pity it is that we've lived the lives we've lived.
Dare to live by letting go.
Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.
Live with passion. Live with enthusiasm. Live your best life.
When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.
You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live with me.
May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!
