Well, but it’s criminal negligence, really. These kids have to grow up and run things. Larger things than a ball field, I mean. What kind of world will they really be able to make?
Think of all the duties that were perfectly obvious to Paul or Matthew in that old Arabian desert that are pure nonsense to us now. All that foot washing, for example. Was it really for God's glory or...
Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes...
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assu...
We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want
Nobody had planted these flowers, I felt sure, nor harvested them either; these were works that the Lord had gone ahead and finished on His own. He must have lacked faith in mankind's follow-through c...
They saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious. That is what it means to be a beast in the kingdom
In our state—no kidding—they are called Standards of Learning, or SOLs. (I don’t think anyone intended the joke.)
Of people: if the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
Right there in the middle of the road he took the cigarette out of my mouth and put it in his, then struck a match on his thumbnail and lit the two of them together, exactly like Humphrey Bogart. Then...
Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
But from here on in I’m your Ma, and that means I love you the most. Forever
In Congo, a slashed jungle quickly becomes a field of flowers, and scars become the ornaments of a particular face. Call it oppression, complicity, stupefaction, call it what you like, it doesn't matt...
They couldn't close out the whole world, maybe, but they could sure find something on their TV or radio to put scientists or foreigners or whatever they thought he was in a bad light. Truly, they were...
Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.
Nearly every day I wake up shocked at how little in this world I comprehend.
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. -Adah Price, The Poisonwood Bible
Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amo...
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably...
I was a skeleton with flesh and clothes and thoughts.
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