When we were attacked militarily it was our duty to defend our country.
I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.
Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.
Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.