I have seen children
I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Limping
I have seen war.
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of … Read more
It is spring, moonless
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. Dylan Thomas
Love is the great
Love is the great intangible. … Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate — love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. … Love is the white light of emotion. … Everyone admits that love is wonderful … Read more
Love is the white
Love is the white light of emotion. Diane Ackerman
Everyone admits that love
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Diane Ackerman
Nothing is as tedious
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom Charles Baudelaire
The World will go
The World will go limping until Christ’s prayer that all may be one is answered. Charles Brent
The unity of Christendom
The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ’s prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it … Read more
We must never underestimate
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn’t take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn’t claim … Read more