Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.
An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.
All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most liberal, were tempted by the reactionary impulse to freeze faith in place. Because as Jesus teaches, it's easy to be threatened by the reality of the complicated, messy, syncretic, God-bearing truth that becomes incarnate among us and makes things new. We'd rather have a dead religion than a living God
Love does not end when we don't see each other.
Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof. ” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.
I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.