Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
Great things can best be said in silence.
Great hopes make great men.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Children are a gift from God. -Psalm 127:3
Today is a gift from God. Don't waste it!
Life is a fragile and awesome gift.
Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.
Forgiveness is a selfless gift of love to others.
Our flesh is a gift of laughter.
Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
