You guys not closed?' she asked. 'We are the definition of not close.
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...
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
Readers are the glue that binds the books together.
A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.