Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.
When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.