although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

There’s always a bear,

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you’re talking California.

be as good as our first honeymoon?’ Friday 7 October A

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and...

the day is all about getting connected.

a push up or two . . . or twenty.

I don’t know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash’s demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his...

With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be

The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is...

Damn it. I should have banished you the first time I saw you. I don’t have time for this, not with everything else. You should be in the Underworld by now. Kiyo isn’t going to...

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don’t show (because it’s difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.

I’m with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no – you didn’t care whether we got on without you or not. You just got up and left. So...

We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter’s lacrosse game.

No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.

How the hell would she support herself and her mother if Agua Dulce’s new owner built one of those mega service stations right next door? Or worse yet, right on top of them.

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands...

the way it always did.

The origins of Aragon’s independent history, and of the fundamental characteristics which differentiated it so sharply from Castile, are to be found in the long struggle of medieval Spain against Islam. The Arabs had invaded...

Thought you might like some wake-up.” Bingo,

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

The town stood witness to her fall As she crashed to the earth Exposed and utterly vulnerable Her secret lives, lies and truths Stained her skin and lay in mounds at her feet Her foes...

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they’re imagining a hundred different things.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Maybe that’s why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don’t make them feel so much worse.

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

has no meaning, or it has a very wrong meaning. How

People come and go, in and out of each other’s lives like it’s nothing. So I don’t know how/why this should be a big deal.

Tot zijn ontzetting beveelt

The standard argument is that civilian deaths in Afghanistan were the regrettable consequence of military action that was needed to destroy Al Qaida bases and thus prevent further terrorist attacks. But this is a spurious...

If we don’t learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

And once I realized that code I write never fucking goes away and I’m going to be a maintainer for life. I get comments about blog posts that are almost 10 years old. “Hey, I...

Jedna z nich została wkrótce potem założycielem pewnej sekty, a druga znanym politykiem.

customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,

for God’s sake, let’s be done with the hypocrisy of claiming “I am a biblical literalist” when everyone is a selective literalist, especially those who swear by the antihomosexual laws in the Book of Leviticus...

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,

how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted to completely godless contexts with little of the impact lost—and when he had...

Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice, which is unnecessary and destructive. More than anything, more than the unnecessary ownership of the obvious, it is disempowering.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it...

Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not...

Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find—all was eerie and...

People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It’s like they’re sixth formers in an end of...