The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
Beneath every history, another history.
You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography. ” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.
And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
I'll be at Lambeth telling my story