…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.
It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.
I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.
[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.
Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.
An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse in a dead man’s eye!
Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he was being ever careful with his words.
Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it is still purposeful, it still has its place in the evolution of our spirit.
In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was the Omega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end—and that the end was just another beginning.
Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.
While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.
After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.
Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.
The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.
But Rose? While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to brake his heart much when the time comes.
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
