my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.
Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.
But also. . . well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her. " "I know that. Of course that's what you have to do. " The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out. "No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.