In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will ...
I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.
I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.
While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box.
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
...always- the sharp, plaintive edge on the rim of the spoon of my giving. (lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')
I can't repair my wall as fast as you can tear it down.
Be less than what you are so that you can become more.” ― Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice
She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.
Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?
To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.
P53-knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless,impatient,continuing,hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.
