The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.
Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.
I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.