Music should make the spirit soar, take the breath away, touch the soul. Your work was just…pleasant tones, adequately performed.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the...
when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.