A spoken word is like a sparrow that once has flown away, cannot be caught again.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help ...
We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God’s feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God’s share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of ‘our own’ pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, ...
Religion has no power if God is not truly 'dangerous,' but religion also seeks to manage God, and make God safe. The second commandment speaks against the management of God. We cannot help but make our images of God, for God has given us imagination....
The sadness of death lies in the fact that it cannot be reversed. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
coming down with something going away with nothing
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalitie...
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.
Why do you cry?" "I almost lost you..." "You cannot lose me, not when you are part of me... You cannot lose has become part of you.
People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.
Stay strong. Don't worry about things you cannot change and don't worry about things changing that you cannot stop.
I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much".
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
A single tiny light creates a space where darkness cannot exist. The light vanquishes the darkness. Try as it might, the darkness cannot conquer the light.
He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!
Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.
