Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. That’s why one banned book in your former country means infinitely more than the billions of words spewed out by our universities.
You should arrive approximately five minutes early for your scheduled road test appointment. You will not be able to take your test if you are late.
Nothing like walking face first into a spider web in the morning. Happy Friday the 13th. –.
Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it responds to the worries that gnaw at them and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues.
It was strange how all large trees had their own personalities, expressed through their unique forms and the aura created by the combined effect of the trunk and roots, the bark and branches, the light and shadow. It was as if they could speak. Not with voices, of course, but with what they were, they seemed to stretch out to whoever looked at them. And that was all they spoke about, what they were, nothing else.
El dinero tiene el control de sus emociones, y en consecuencia, de sus almas.
To me, having a true bond with an animal means celebrating and honoring its animal nature first, before we start to co-opt it into being our friend, soul mate, or child.
John Calvin comments on today’s passage: “God is only rightly served when his law is obeyed. It is not left to every man to frame a system of religion according to his own judgment, but the standard of godliness is to be taken from the Word of God.
God gave us our spouses; let us rejoice in them.
People want to be recognized. They want to be celebrated in some way. They want to be made to feel as if they really do count for something. And they want a place where they can belong in the community that stands for something more than just an enterprise that makes money.
Every good story tells at least one lie and holds a secret at its heart.
You may end up with a great website or mobile app, but you have learnt nothing in the process and have not taken ownership of your digital strategy.
And as we take up our positions on the stage, we call upon the nine Muses for assistance, Calliope, who helps with the epic ballads, Euterpe, who helps with the sad songs, Erato, who helps with the confessional songs, Clio, who helps with the oldies, Melpomene, who helps with the super-tragic stuff, Polyhymnia, who helps with the religious songs, Terpsichore, who helps with the dance numbers, Thalia, who helps with the funny songs, And Urania, who helps when it gets spacey and psychedelic.
The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by a wise man can kill even babes in the womb.
Search YouTube for “gallium infiltration” to see how strange this is.
In him, suddenly, she saw someone foreign, a broken man where a cruel, careless man had always stood. She dared to rise up, to move toward him, to kneel in front of him. She stared up at him, feeling hot tears glaze her eyes. “Why did you push me and Vianne away?” “I hope you never know how fragile you are, Isabelle.” “I’m not fragile,” she said. The smile he gave her was barely one at all. “We are all fragile, Isabelle. It’s the thing we learn in war.
We feel too much. React too much. Say too much. Need too much. So says the world. Except the world is wrong.
My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart turn night into day.
One of the most satisfying parts of any story is the point at which the villain gets what is coming to him.
As Tozer expressed it, “Human nature, as we know it, is in a formative state. It is being changed into the image of the thing it loves.