Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps.

To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective—a virtuous society—America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

There are evils worse than death.

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.

The revolution starts at the bottom.