When you put a log on the fire, the light and heat you see is, in a literal sense, the decades of sunshine that tree basked in over its lifetime.

The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths.

How can one fight for a love that acts as the enemy?

Pay attention, ” Gareth said to Moxie. “If it comes down to a choice of gettin’ captured or killed by Saxons or brigands, dead is less bad,

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters