Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!
If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
Pursue the obstacle It will set you free
Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.
Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.
Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth. ' (Lord Halifax)