Matthew Quotes
We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.
Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.
Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams Week" Now that NBC is giving him a sixth month "leave" I wonder if he will be "Killing Time-In Saudi Arabia!
Wisdom of the Ages: Another Bush in the White House-Yep they keep forgetting to grab the TV and silverware.
... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.
No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.
Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.
Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.
Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in four dedicates over 70 percent to paying the rent and keeping the lights on.
Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.
In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.
Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.
These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.
Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin--indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say.
We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within.
Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.
With a ring around the rosaryAnd a pocket full of crossesAshes to ashesThey'll all fall down
I’ve been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn‘t that be so cool! - Carol
I’m not a big fan of Halloween. Except for the dressing up part. I love picking out a costume. - Tory
I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.
When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life.
Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.
Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.
Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.
If you said to me, “I do not love, I have never loved, ” then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say “I do not hate, I have never hated, ” then you sound like half a man.
Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster.
Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.
Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing
When he found a very valuable pearl, he went and sold everything he had and bought it
