Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any re...
Peace is something that comes from within. It is created by your willingness to accept yourself.
Of course you could do more - you can always do more, and you should do more - but still, the important things is to do what you can, whenever you can. You just do your best, and that's all you can do. Too many people use the excuse that they don't t...
I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting...
What do you want?” Boyd whispered. “You—
God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.
I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.
I'm afraid if I say what I am thinking, it will be too much too soon.
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
Could your god and this infernal be called enemies, then?" "It is more complicated than that. God knew what was going to happen, of course. The divine has a plan for the infernal. Because all is of God and nothing of God can truly be destroyed, the i...
It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all that is lost to God, that which has set itself apart and refuses to return, believing itself to be in exile.
She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.
Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.
drenching his shirt with saltwater
Well, that just sucks! I guess I'm stuck with Mike Newton after all
When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented y...
Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily. 'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.
