The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68
And sometimes, , wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived... Go, take up your real self!
It's normal for us to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life treat us, but it is ungodly for us to be ungrateful for these circumstances that make us unhappy!
Change comes with pain... But this pain later becomes a gain. To explain it well, "no pain, no gain"! Endure the pain and make a difference!
That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can't abide the fire shall go through water.
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
People’s lives can become quite difficult when they don’t understand that the spirit that lives in them...lives in all of us. Humanity...we are one☺
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...
And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.
Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.
Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.
As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom.
Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.
A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.
