The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.
There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.
If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.
I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.
Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.
Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.