The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes...
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
Sure, go ahead. Calvin fished in his pocket and pulled out a wad of folded paper. As a matter of fact, I have some junk of mine to finish up. Math. That’s one thing I have a hard time keeping up in. I...
Somehow or other, the loving parents had swallowed one of the Tempter's hooks, and the child was given total self-indulgence, which is far from free will. He still tempts. The ancient, primordial batt...
So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but that I will also grow into maturity, where the experience which can be acquired only through chron...
Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.
Pain is a partner I did not request;This is a dance I did not ask to join;whirled in a waltz when I would stop and rest,Jolted and jerked, I ache in bone and loin.Pain strives to hold me close in his...
Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and so become healed and whole and holy -- not qualified, mind you; just holy.
One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explai...
Once Christianity became acceptable, and even mandatory, it lost the early poverty of spirit which sustained it when any group gathered together for bread and wine in his Name had to have one ear open...
On its surface this is a book about three children who fight an evil force threatening their planet. But it is really about a more primal battle all human beings face, to respect, defend, and love the...
Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see? Again Mrs Which’s voice reverberated through the cave. Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso many y pplle...
Meg cut up some celery and mixed it in with the tuna. After a moment's hesitation she opened the refrigerator door and brought out a jar of little sweet pickles.-Though why I'm doing it for her I don'...
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
Like everything else—Meg spoke to the few remaining cauliflower heads— it’s falling apart. It’s not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn’t be safe in school.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.
It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants.
If thou could'st empty all thyself of self Like to a shell dishabited Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf And say This is not dead and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete...
IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terribl...
I like the name writing practices better than Creative Writing. As I have said, nobody can teach creative writing—run like mad from anybody who thinks he can. But one can teach practices, like finger...