The narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable
A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.
Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.
The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained...
Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know...
you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhe...