"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.
All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.