There's one thing your writing must have to be any good at all. It must have you. Your soul, your self, your heart, your guts, your voice -- you must be on that page. In the end, you can't make the magic happen for your reader. You can only allow the...
It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it does not possess free will. Free will, however, is FREE. And just by virtue of being free, is intractable and incalcula...
He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should have been, there was only a wild foliage of ferns and...
There is no excuse for anyone to misunderstand God's Word if he will, like a child, accept the Bible for what it says, and be honest enough to consecrate himself to obey it. He must accept the Bible as God's Word. He must believe that God could not b...
If We Must Die If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may no...
Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous rea...
He who uses bad incense must be careful not to burn his sleeves.
He who heeds the first word of his wife must listen forever to the second.
Every letter must be chewed before you can refresh yourself with its juice.
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
He who wants to do a good jump must sometimes take a step back.
If you don't want to be deceived, you must have as many eyes as hairs on the head.
I can chew for you, my child, but you must swallow by yourself.
It's not enough to know how to ride -- you must also know how to fall.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.
The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands.
Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
We all have the capacity to find the will to do what must be done - even when that which we must do terrifies us most. Remember this.
Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.
