God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.
Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.
Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter. " "Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep. " "No. It is like every morning when you wake up.
If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.
You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.
You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home. " "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death; the crown of flowers I will never wear at my wedding. " He knelt on one knee before me. "The little house I would have had of my own, to furnish and clean. That, too, is part of my dower. " "I will give you the world for your footstool," he said. "And most precious of all, I give you the wee baby I will never hold in my arms.
Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic.
I think just as a person, if you say you follow Christ, you have to stand up for the injustices that are going on in the world.
I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things, but I am not a collector; it's just that people I work for, and friends, give me a lot of things. There are pictures all over the walls, sculptures, mobiles and paintings. I am embarrassed because I wonder what I should do with them.