You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

The establishment? Well, guess what? Donald Trump now is the establishment. His primary opponents, many of them are interviewing for White House gigs.

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

Happy, happy fashion. There is not much more to it than that.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.