For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

What seeds are you planting?

shrimp and green peppers are shriveling in my refrigerator

I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.

We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.