What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.
Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.
I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.
Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions!
The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!
You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You are unique; so are others!
If you can't be the change, you can set an example for change. If you can't set an example for change, you can go and sleep! By all means, you can do something!
As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your own efforts.
It's only "single steps" that make a journey of 1000 miles. It means the combined effect of many steps is the equivalence of a great journey. Go, take many little steps.
Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind.
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
Sex is not about genitalia. It’s about relationship. When God said ‘the two shall become one flesh,’ he didn’t mean it only physically.
You're my friend who happens to be pretty and female. You do realize being your friend doesn't mean I don't have a penis?
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.
Just because there is an obstacle in your path, that doesn’t mean you have to get off the road.
Look for the joy in each and every day. Just because it isn’t immediately obvious, that doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!
Integrity is the source of new solutions and innovations; courage is a means of halting progress down a wrong road.
Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.
The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.
