The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end.
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.
I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.
It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not.
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.
Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.
I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.
Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.
We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open.
You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.
I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.
Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is.