The soft bigotry of low expectations

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves "why.

Sometimes we look around and realize we need new friends. That’s the sign that they are just around the bend :)

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

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