Do we think we know enough to chart where we are on the arc of our lives? Forgive us, Father, for the arrogance of such projections. What do they gain us? If we project nothing but struggle ahead, we quickly become despondent and are sapped of the vi...
Use medicine as well as prayers.
Sickness shows us what we are.
Don't use an axe to do embroidery.
Soap is grey but it used to be white.
Sickness tells us what we are.
Compete like you cannot fail.
Act like a champion, and then become one.
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.
We had said, it was either all of us or none of us.
Let us not be bored
It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.
See it first in your mind, then become it.
Failure does not define us, it refines us.
The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
We feel that, for the honour of God (and also, though we do not say this, for the sake of our own reputation as spiritual Christians), it is necessary for us to claim that we are, so to speak, already in the signal-box, here and now enjoying the insi...
We are stripped of all that gave value and substance to our existence: power and love; in this naked final state, our last lover, our mate, death, comes. Bereft, without cover, we face the elements that will undo us. The winter breakers crash over an...
