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"Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring flesh upon...

"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering." ...

What more appropriate time than the Eighteenth of this month to pause and give thanks for the written word. Let's consider wh...

"Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves all mysterious, my heart w...

"‘This is the land of Narnia, where we are now’, said the faun. 'It is all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of ...

"Now I climb the steps to freedom. The open gates, I can see them. Hands that I once knew Beckoning me through." ~ Mike Oldfield, ...

"There is a light, a light that never dies See it shine, shining in my sorrow There is a light, a light in my desire See it shining, sh...

"Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; a...

"God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." ~ 2nd Timothy 1:7 My physical steps are...

"O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence." ~Isaiah 64:1...

"sunlight has not found us over forty days or more while the flood outside proves no guide to bring this little boat ashore what we kno...

"I'm hearing right and wrong so clearly there must be more than this it's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive I ...

“You will have nothing but love Nothing but hope, blue sky above You will find nothing but peace Nothing but the sun shining on your face Wh...

"When we were children, we thought and reasoned as children do. But when we grew up, we quit our childish ways." ~ 1 Corinthi...

"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow however turns out to be not a state but a process." ~ C.S. Lewis...

"The labor, of course, is in the unrelenting struggle to banish the countless destructive thoughts that plague our minds and restrain t...

"It’s funny how they put you down when your hands are held up high; And you open up your heart and soul, but that’s not enough for most...

"First, there is the psychological conscience, which is better called consciousness. It reports to us the actions we perform. It is ...

"But that won't be enough for me, Not this year not anytime soon. I have got to clean house, Gotta make my bed, Gotta clear my head...

"Nothing is more perilous to your own destiny, more unworthy of eternity, or more hurtful to your ordinary happiness, than being conten...

"I have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, let us tear aside the veils which hide it from our eyes and let us...

"This overacted part from this never ending play Is just her substitute For reality anyway. I've tried and tried to tell her It...

"When I'm broken, see what happens Arms wide open, see what happens See what happens to me." ~ Vigilantes of Love, When I'...

"Lack of interest leads to Lack of knowledge leads to Lack of perspective leads to Lack of communication leads to Lack of understanding...

"Peter got up the nerve to ask, 'Rabbi, how many times do I forgive someone who hurts me? Seven?' Jesus replied, 'Seven! Ha...

"It is a monstrous thing to see in one heart at one and the same time this sensitiveness to trifles and this strange insensibility to t...

"My soul would choose strangling rather than life, and the grave is more easy for me than this dungeon. Shall we be ruled by the Gian...

"It is indeed through our broken, vulnerable, mortal ways of being that the healing power of the eternal becomes visible to us. Therefo...

"Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. You might be afraid of the pain that deep love can cause." ~Henri Nouwen, Love Deeply...