-our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.
God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.
You're not suggesting that tucks into a nice rat every day?" said Angua. "I've heard he uses rats as spies, so I don't think he'd use them as elevenses," said Carrot.
God did not give us the gospel to convince humanity; the gospel was given to us to master the language of a new world called God's Paradise. John 15:16.
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
There will come a time,'' I said, ''when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. [...]
In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don't want to do that.
We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good." "The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.
Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?
It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.
In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.
You see, God didn't create us to merely survive. He created us to thrive! We were made for abundant life.
When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend.
Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?
How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.
The problems in our world will never be solved by people who hate and use violence but will be solved by people who use love and kindness, as their weapons showing humanity repeatedly that they truly care. Bullying Ben
Many use laughter to hide their tears and anger to hide their fear As you walk through life use your smile to show you your heart full of good cheer
When you really believe that using sword can kill people, that's when you will be subject to the law of the sword, "those who use the sword will die by the sword.
