Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.
There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1. 8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference.