I've been a long-distance father.
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.
It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.
What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.
resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.
I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
Nick was dressed in jeans, a dark green sweater, and bomber jacket–the perfect image of a rich college student. Talon looked like a biker who had just left Sanctuary, New Orleans’s premier biker bar. Acheron looked like a refugee from the Dungeon–the local underground goth hangout. Valerius was the professional contingent, and Zarek…Zarek just looked like he was ready to kill something. ’ (Talon)