Quotes of: Our-lives Keyword

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in ...

The Best of the Group of Seven

That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to) is likely to have a secret contempt for us, and any ...

Middlemarch

Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet the same old sad and lonely child within, our healing journey begins. Exhausting ourselves with novelty is a defense...

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we h...

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive. Predestination is the universal framework of limits (based on natural physical laws) placed upon us. Free will is our infinite ability to make choices within that fra...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ...

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

We are at our best when we love the Lord and his church more than our style of life. We do not believe in our country, right or wrong. If evil has such a grip upon the institutions of government, we know that evil must be overthrown by one means or a...

What Is Anglicanism?

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we ...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

When we search for "ourselves" in the eyes of others, we have imprisoned our own-selves in believing that our self-worth is nothing unless others validate who we are. Unless we approve of whom we are, what we are, and what we are capable of doing as ...

Through The Eyes of A Foster Child: A Poetic Journey

We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourse...

Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light

We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Reason is overrated. Many pundits have argued that a good heart and steadfast moral clarity are superior to triangulations of overeducated policy wonks, like the best and brightest and that dragged us into the quagmire of Vietnam. And wasn't it reaso...

Steven Pinker

I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible or in what I can personally accomplish, but in the faith that battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meanin...

Chris Hedges

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesti...

John F. Kennedy

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

City of Stairs

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Ingmar Bergman

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.

The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

Secrets of Harmony Grove