I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working.
How far back does one's memory of someone go?
People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?
You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.
If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?
Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.
Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.
Oh, I usually don't know a whole lot about a subject when I begin; the process itself teaches me a lot as I go along. Usually I know enough about one narrow area of the subject to start myself going, and then everything - including a lot more research - follows from that.
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.