When God entrusts his children to us - for they're all ultimately his - he knows what we lack, he knows where we're weak, he knows how we tend to sin, yet still he places these children in our households and under our care.
Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves. . . Every place was a tilting edge.
But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.
Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.
A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment it is released. . . The whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct control and more and more seem to have the beginning of a will of their own.
May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to uphold the Constitution, a living faith in its inspired origin, that we may always be found among those who shall support it to the last breath.
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion.
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
I want to kiss you again, Tess. ” “Why?” He chuckled, low under his breath. “Why? Because you’re beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too.
It's hard. . . to shake off something that's already under your skin.
Stand still. . . and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.
The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and the worst may be yet to come. Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U. S. management.
There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.
This nation under God
which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot. " "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach. " Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them. " she said, under her breath. "Really
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.