The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin's gravity lay in the idea itself, not just the act. "Paul admonished the church at Philippi to have the mind of Christ, and to the same people he wrote, "Whatever is true. . . pure. . . if there be any virtue. . . think on these things. " Thus, the follower of Christ must demonstrate to the world what it is not just to think, but to think justly.
Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.
When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.