...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of g...
But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
If you want a sense of purpose for experiencing pressures, use your knowledge of Jesus Christ's comforting, enlivening, energizing presence to be a comfort to others.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.
That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get some...
The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.
