I was a teenage godmother.
Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity. . . at its height.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.
Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.
I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921