You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.
Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.
(n.) The quality or state of being open.
The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.
When you open to the world, the world opens to you.
While we must not fall into the gnosticizing trap of seeing the world as only ideal, without any reference to the physical and tangible universe we inhabit, neither should we commit to crass literalis...
History teacher Bob Alston's "expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to g...
Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because, vulnerability reveals everyone in your life who will abuse power immediately and almost irrevocably. Th...
A squirrel flies in, said Dr. Meescham. This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window ope...
Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.
Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done o...
Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity".
A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, w...
The more broken you are, the more light gets through.
Reality is a complex phenomenon, filled with dimensions, not the least of which are two that Christians affirm and understand: the physical and the spiritual. We are invited by Cervantes to enter into...
You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone...
More depended on the student than on the school.
A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.
Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"?
David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
And do I still have that look?" he asked."Yes just there," she kissed his eye. "The desire to love me is still there. If you look closely you can see mine for you, my tears never washed it away.