Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.
You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.
My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.
All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. . . . This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i. e. , divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots. His underestimate of the value of manure.
How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.
Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.