You cannot fly with wings made of butter.
Even the sharpest ear cannot hear an ant singing.
A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled.
You cannot ask more of an ox than a steak.
A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor.
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
You cannot forge a good sword from bad iron.
You cannot breathe through another man's nose.
A man cannot jump over his own shadow.
If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he will dream of being a professor.
You cannot shave a man's head in his absence.
You cannot cross a river without getting wet.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
What better reminder do we have than our kids of our own best selves, our less stressed and more carefree selves? In their silliness we see the echo of the way we used to be: when we were kids, yes, but also before we had kids, or even two weeks ago,...
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But Malone was thinking now and as he watched the men lighting cigarettes for each other in the dark, having sex beneath the trees, he turned to his friend and said in a wondering voice: “Isn’t it strange that when we fall in love, this great dre...
I listen to the rain talk to the leaves. She tells a story of love and leaving (isn’t that always the story? Isn’t that always the punchline?) She tells it softly like someone who has recently lost something that cannot be replaced. She closes he...
Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpo...
Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be...
We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. And though you probe and pry With analytic eye, And eavesdrop all our talk With an amused look, You cannot find the centre W...
