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Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.
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No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
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I still get butterflies when England are playing.
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Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
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We may not usually think that we have an effect on the lives of others, but we would be amazed at how wrong we could be. We do not need to make great contributions to the world-just small, consistent ones to those whose lives we touch. We could help so many people by just taking the time to listen to them, comfort them or just bring them hope.
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All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
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If you are good life is good.
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Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
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If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
