God & Prayers

“Did not God sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request.” – Hannah More

Investment

“Putting things away after you use them is an investment of time in the present to reduce the time required to find them in the future. Explaining yourself to others can be a time-consuming, and even unpleasant, activity but it is engaged in as an investment to...

Abuse of the Vulnerable

“The intellectually disabled children at Willowbrook, the elderly patients of the New York Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital, the men suffering from syphilis in Tuskegee, and the just-aborted but still-living newborns in Scandinavia were easily conscripted into...

Emotions

“Emotions are a window into our hearts. They are like the indicator lights on the dashboard of our car. However, because many of us have no idea how to handle our emotions, we fear them, bury them, deny them and eventually medicate them so that we can press on with...

Bear-baiting

“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.” – Thomas Babington Macaulay