This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Freedom costs you a great deal.
One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.
Our priorities is our faith.
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.
My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.