Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.

Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

His (Paul's) entire personality within mutation. He was being turned inside out as he led Jesus light the recesses of his soul.

Though blue sky and the road’s yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

... and her name was Freedom.

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.