Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.
I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.
In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid. ' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later. " "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica. " Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.
I don't mind saying what's on my mind.
You can love your job, but your job will not love you back.
We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.
Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route. But the modern-day church doesn't like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we've got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished - proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS!