"We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid."

“There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.”

“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Oct 18, 2016

“The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.”

“Say my husband had a dangerous job and I wasn't with him, I don't know how you go, 'Oh honey, how was it with the police department today? You got all your fingers and toes today?' It would scare me. I'd have to become a police officer and work with him; I couldn't do it.”

“What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God.”

Source : James Bryan Smith (2010). “The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows”, p.88, InterVarsity Press

“I love Toronto, It's the best city.”

“The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.”

“There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.”