It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.
Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.
With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?
Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.
Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.
Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?
That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].