They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Wander here a whole summer, if you can. . . Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J. R. R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.