Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.
There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.
What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?
I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.
The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community. ' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.