When we walk with knowledge in our present and wisdom from our past we are able to discern how to prepare for tomorrow". HS/el
You are not male or female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.
How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?
I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right aroun...
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.
Grace allows for questions ... and is the answer!" EL
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exal...
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.
I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer f...
Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
Guilt can teach us to become better; shame causes us to become bitter." EL
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.
Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.
