I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.
Animals are also poisoned. And there are indecencies
Ageing is not easy, Sennhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology. It starts well. It's a most desirable disease. One wouldn't want to do without it. It's...
It is true that those we meet can change us
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
This Son is a god who walked, a pedestrian god—and in a hot place, at that—with a stride like any human stride, the sandal reaching just above the rocks along the way; and when He splurged on transpor...
He weeps like a child, catching his breath and hiccuping,his face drenched with tears.We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relations...
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
And so the explanation for why Agatha Christie is the most popular author in the history of the world. Her appeal is as wide and her dissemination as great as the Bible's, because she is a modern apos...
Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?
Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can b...
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a differ...
The multitude of the curious and the offended descends upon him.
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 or the story without a...
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
Lakshmi, goddess of wealth,
It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on....
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?