No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.
Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home. . . but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.
Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.