Catie Conrad, just because we think we deserve something, it doesn't mean God is going to allow it to happen in the snap of a finger.
Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking...
Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.
When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,” Leto explained. “To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all other forms of life. Yet it had not been thought that co...
The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary
I am not the river I am the net.
There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to...
We accomplish much more when we are working WITH Him than when we are working for Him!
The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.
Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers"! HS/el
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; ...
It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.
To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.
