N.E. Henderson Quotes
In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.
Lord, You made us and gave us breath. May we do justice, love and mercy, and walk honorably before you this day. By the precious name of Jesus, I ask for your help to do this. Amen.
Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.
...we’re not even really hiking, more like meandering in cinematic light.
He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.
If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it.
Time’s relativity is considered and abandoned, for the more revelatory experiences of starlightin strands, and pearly floors that span as far as absolute compassion...
Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.
...you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all.
Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming
Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?
God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.
And evolution wasn't even properly invented until the late 1800s. Is that enough time to get a Labrador retriever from a dire wolf? I think not.
Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests.
There is earth below your earth, a deep room wheregas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow bloodthrough a body.
I have lived my life growing up with emptiness in hope that I would someday find you. That emptiness is now a broken Heart
The Socialist system requires that each individual act out of selfless, altruistic motives. It sounds nice, but the only way that could happen is if Man were innately centered on others.
Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.
You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.
Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.
too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry.(Preface, vii)
In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on.
Ben Scott couldn't be afraid of the supernatural. He didn't believe in the supernatural. Ben Scott was firmly convinced that he didn't believe in anything,
The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.
A giant motherboard of geese, unruffled by the statepolice, swarmed in unison, in harmony...
Dear Anonymous, I've got a secret I know you can keep it because you don't really exist....This is what shapes you, this is what makes you as authentic as you are fake.
It was as if someone had leftthe bird thereas a kind of telegramof feathers, oily feathersthat looked like they’d struggled, shuttered a little before letting gointo flightforever.
To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.
I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.
You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.
My mom sent me money for a car, but the cops impounded it because I had no insurance.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.