Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

They asked me why I loved him, and I said: “Because he doesn’t remember how to love himself.

I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.

The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.

Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew."

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.