Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.
Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen
Fair is whatever God wants to do.
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.
How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child; they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate.
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.
I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.