I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
Design is an unknown.
People feel like there're two systems of justice, you know? Over there at Wells Fargo, you know, you had the scandal going on there, but the CEO leaves with a big, giant package. And other folks get in a whole lot of trouble for doing a lot less. The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.
The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed; our country is strong.