...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Criminal’ pompousness will not do

...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.