You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.
We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.
Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.
We are living a life full of first experiences, from a first kiss, to the first time giving blood, to conceptual and philosophical explanations of humanity’s firsts.
The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.
When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean. Sloppy and vast.
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?
Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.
I figured I only had about two seconds to live. It’s amazing how many thoughts you can have in two seconds.
We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.
I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.
People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.
My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.
The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.
I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.
Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.
Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.
Having had a transcendental experience as a teenager with the assistance of a hallucinogen, Madeline remains certain that the universe is too vast and beautiful to bother with gods.
Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea.
