To Quote
July 1, 1996
Adversity
One reason God created time was so there would be a place to bury the failures
of the past.
If I have learned anything, I owe it neither to precepts nor to books, but
to a few opportune misfortunes. Perhaps the school of misfortune is the very
best.
Many people quench the Spirit by being down in the mouth rather than rejoicing,
by planning rather than praying, by murmuring rather than giving thanks,
and by worrying instead of trusting in him who is faithful.
Culture
The world is a spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying
to spell God with the wrong blocks.
At the point of desperation is the time for rededication.
Marriage
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
When you're wrong, admit it,
When you're right, shut up.
Let the wife make her husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry
to see him leave.
Men and Women
A woman with a woman's point of view is of more value than when she forgets
she's a woman and begins to act like a man.
Manhood, once an opportunity for achievement, now seems like a problem to
be overcome. What you find is terrible gender anxiety, guys trying to be
Mr. Right; the man who can bake a cherry pie, go shoot skeet, come back,
toss a salad, converse easily about intimate matters, cry if need be, laugh,
hug, be vulnerable, perform passionately that night, and the next day go
off and lift them bales onto that barge and tote it. Being perfect is a terrible
way to spend your life, and guys aren't equipped for it, anyway.
Morality
I have never been tempted to resort to gratuitous sex, profanity, or violence.
I couldn't write a book that I would be embarrassed for my kids to read a
few years from now. Plus, my mother would kill ...
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