What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.
Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.
It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.
Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?" Aline looked up. "Climb the demon towers?" She laughed. "No, no one ever does that. It's totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, why would you want to?" Aline, Isabelle thought, did not have much imagination. She herself could think of lots of reasons why someone might want to climb the demon towers, if only to spit gum down on passerbys below.
Don't cry. " "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me. " "Well, why else did you think all of this was happening?" He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. "The Furies wouldn't be trying to kill you if I didn't love you. " "I didn't know," I said. Tears were trickling down my cheeks, but I did nothing to try to stop them. His shirt was absorving most of them. "You never said anything about it. Every time I saw you, you just acted so. . . wild. " "How was I supposed to act?" he asked. "You kept doing things like throwing tea in my face.
I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is a focus on what's going on between people and relationships. I think so much is happening in the world at the moment, so many changes politically and culturally, writers are writing about that.