Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord i...
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to...
Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.
When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie befo...
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future.
Anything can be a curse if it ain't a choice. If it's all you know. If you do it because your father did it. And you do it because it's familiar and safe and you're afraid to do something else. Even if all you want to do is anything else.
Where I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices. When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, "I can't afford it," and started saying, "That's not where I want to spend that amount of money.
Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says m...
His Magnificence - Your Manifestation.I will make of thee a great nation
I will bless thee - His Beatitude is Your Beautification
The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray, contrives to stir up these motions of impurity in its nature; and if the so...
His Pronouncement is Your Announcement -I will make thy name great
A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “Young woman,” said he. “You don’t reconcile friends
Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.
Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.
Tough times don't define you, they refine you.
And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.
