Wisdom

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

While 'caring about' conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, 'caring for' is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.

I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, 'Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol.' To which I always respond, 'I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

What is deeply felt is never lost.

It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important.

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.

... Vampires are like gourmet chocolate - oh, so tempting, but overindulgence is a killer.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. Hearing what is called the 'voices of the pages.' It is a real acoustical reading.

Education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation.