People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.