The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
What we have is a data glut.
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
No man however great is greater than his people
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God. " This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.
If you don't make a conscious choice. . . someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.