Der Glaube an Gott ist ein Sichöffnen, ein Loslassen, ein tiefes Vertrauen, eine bedingungslose Liebe – aber manchmal war es so schwer zu lieben. Manchmal sank mein Herz vor Wut, Verzagtheit und Ersch...
And where in the automobile is the offal that so offends with the horse? There is none, only a puff of smoke that vanishes in the air. An automobile is as harmless as a cigarette. Mark my words, Tomás...
I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when som...
Life will defend itself no matter how smallit is
You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
What are we without the ones we love?
We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be.
Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr.Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.
The main battlefield of good is not the open ground of the publis arena, but the small clearing of each heart.
Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists,
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals of the story without a...
Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and...
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookis...
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct app...
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to...
And what a story. The first thing that drew me in was disbelief. What? Humanity sins but it's God's Son who pays the price? I tried to imagine Father saying to me, 'Piscine, a lion slipped into the ll...
There’s sunlight and shade, spotsand patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere–so you don’t make out what is right in front of you.
Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them-and then they leap.I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We mu...
Ineluctably.