Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
You cannot do only one thing.
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.
Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.