Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.
Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.
Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mothers heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, to her most tender cares, to her life-long prayers! Oh how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!
The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.
The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.
Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life. " He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. "I did it to save myself, not you," he says. "Believe me when I say that you did not once cross my mind. " I laugh. "Nor you mine," I say.
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.