Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.
We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.
I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most is radical liberalism, leftism. And it is clear that they are making great strides in corrupting once-great institutions and once-great traditions.
The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and surpasses the others in its simple yet elegant style. In many respects the ESV has accomplished in the 21st century what the KJV accomplished in the 17th: a trustworthy, literary Bible that is suitable for daily reading, memorizing, and preaching.
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.
The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.
How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.
I deal with haters on a daily basis.
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.
What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.
The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily likes of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.