The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.