“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.”

Darwinism is the story of humanity’s liberation from the delusion that its destiny is controlled by a power higher than itself.

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever – do not abandon the works of your hands.

The simplest way to lose your soul is to go with the flow because the flow is naturally down. Only live fish can swim against the current. Dead ones just conform to it.

Buddhists say that a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.

Into the air, and what seemed corporal Melted as breath into the wind. Would they had stayed.

Racing over the hills in the country the wind blew vast rings of shadow that dwindled again to green.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

Cold is the counsel of women.

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

The trilogy of “Before Sunrise”, “Before Sunset” and last-year’s “Before Midnight” returns periodically to.

In a way, it’s nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong.

People move on after a breakup – sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. The thing you have to remember is that it was over for him before he ended it, so he had a head start on the process of getting over it.

They say you’re not punished for your sins, you’re punished by them.

The bottom line for Republicans is this: The United States can have an open door without having open borders, but we cannot preserve the country we love by slamming that door in the faces of those who most aspire to join our nation.

Grace turns pennies into gold, pebbles into pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength, and needs into abundance.

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

Expectation is the source of all the worries – Bestow without aiming to receive anything in return.