God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.
They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and spurred away across the flat lands towards the mountains. . . And it may even be that they found their Kingdom.
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
. . . for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.
I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.
As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art