If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.
There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.