I was only just beginning to realize what a horribly destructive thing hate is, how it destroys inwards as well as outwards. I
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
He's not good for you, Omio said. He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.
But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,
But I have to accept the fact that I am often unwise; that I am not always loving; that I make mistakes; that I am, in fact, human. And as Christians we are not meant to be less human than other peopl...
But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children’s books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone’s...
Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master pupp...
Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must...
Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters.
All teachers must face the fact that they are potential points of reference. The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we...
All my life the people I have loved—Ilsa, Cousin Anna, Silver, Myra Turnbull, Joshua Tisbury—have accepted me as a friend, have confided in me—but, somehow, there has been no actual contact made. It h...
Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
A book comes and says, 'Write me.
Девочка решила, что стоит сварить себе горячего какао. Это немного приободрит ее, и даже если крышу сорвет ветром, Мэг не унесет вместе с нею.
The climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the...
You’re good in school. Everybody likes you. For all the most unimportant reasons, Calvin said. There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level a...
You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.
Why, my Lord, did you have to bringMe down from the safety of my hillInto the danger of your will? (David p. 34)