A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.
And things go unsaid soon get forgotten
But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you.
Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.
People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.
I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.
You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace. . . That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.