The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.
The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.
Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. . . . We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.
No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.