[Oscar Pistorius] told me that he gets no special thrill from defeating men with two biological legs. To do so would be to dwell on his own disability. “You have to move past it,” he said. “Everyone has setbacks. I’m no different. I happen to have no legs. That’s pretty much the fact.” So what does he think as he settles into the starting block? “I ( Read more... )

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him and grief the superficial.
~GK Chesterton

In the centuries since, Christians have tried to tame the Resurrection, shoring it up with logical and historical proofs, talking about it as if it makes perfect sense if you only think about it. But a resurrection that has merely become a comforting tale of hope is not the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection of Jesus announces a new ( Read more... )

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~Helen Keller

"Since high school I've been hearing about how Christians need to start making exceptional art that will show the world the glory of The Almighty...But then I started noticing that God never says people will be brought to Him by really great art ( Read more... )

I can't leave Sunny alone. He doesn't do well on his own. It's not that he doesn't want to get along with others; it's that he can't figure out how, as silly as that sounds. There's just some fundamental part of his thought processes that denies him the ability to empathize with a point of view other than his own, a flipped bit somewhere, and the ( Read more... )

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are the 'opposite sex'--(though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighboring sex'?). But the fundamental thing is that women are more like men than anything else in the world. They are human beings.
~Dorothy Sayers as quoted by Carolyn McCulley

"I believe in therapy," Wiesel says, "particularly between friends. If a friend talks to another friend to relieve his suffering, that is therapy. Human beings were not born to be alone. God alone is alone. People are capable of falling in love. Illness is not being able to fall in love."
~from Elie Wiesel: Embracing memory and madness

...A Mad ( Read more... )

The conversation spirals off into illuminating territory, touching once again on the Christian faith that is the key determinant of both his music and his activism. It is a subject he does not often talk about, [Bono] says, because it inevitably gets reduced or trivialised, and "it leaves you open to being accused of being a hypocrite, especially ( Read more... )

Many Autobots kept their bodies flawless through touch-ups and re-sprays and lube transfusions. Their torsos would hum like a freshly baked biomorph when in fact all that remained of their pre-war bodyshells was a frizz of neural wiring ( Read more... )