In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a… — Ted Loder Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed;… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
