It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

yet so that envy is not to be taken for a passion, but for a will resisting the good of another.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

A man who is dedicated to helping improve the lives of other people A kind, honest, forgiving, and selfless husband, father, and friend A man who just doesn't just believe in God, but who believes God

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent; and James, as he stood stiff between her knees, felt her rise in a rosy-flowered fruit tree laid with leaves and dancing boughs into which the beak of brass, the arid scimitar of his father, the egotistical man, plunged and smote, demanding sympathy.

I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.

Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.