“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good.” Matthew 20:15 I have found myself, once...

In the movie Silence of the Lambs, Starling has a conversation with Hannibal Lector who points her to Marcus Aurelius and the idea of...

“Woe unto him who strives with his Maker! …Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’” Isaiah 45:9 The requirements...

“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be...

“Men are such simple creatures.” ~Women The above oft-quoted bon mot illustrates for me the difference between what is spoken/written and...

“Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in...

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” C.S. Lewis Children seeing things that adults cannot is a favorite...

“And in that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and for mourning. For baldness and for girding with sackcloth. But instead, joy...

“A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”...

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handiwork…there is no speech nor language, where their voice is not...

“Damn you. Take that!” Jack McCall to Wild Bill Hickok I just returned from Wild Deadwood Reads, an author’s book fair that takes place...

“We’re not retreating, we’re just advancing in a different direction.” Gen. Oliver Smith Surrounded at the Chosin Reservoir by multiple...

Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, “thus says the Lord, the God of host, the God of Israel: ‘If you surely surrender to the king of...

“Is not this the carpenter’s son...Whence then hath this man all these things? And they were offended in him. Matthew 13 Socrates thought...

“Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he answered...

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful.” George Orwell I think fiction writers would do well to have a touch of...

“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh...

Write what you know, every writer has heard it over and over again. I’m searching for a word here—a word that means you say and believe...

“To learn as we grow old, The secrets of our soul…” The Moody Blues When I was in nursing school, I was asked by a classmate how I worked...

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish...