For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, ...who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall w...as opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
True revolutionaries are like God--they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our child...ren, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the works thy hand hath made,... I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder, thy pow'r thro'out the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee, How great thou art!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every human society endeavors to preserve itself by inventing the adolescence it requires. . . . Adults are prone to create myths ...about the meaning of adolescence. Whatever their political or personal inclinations, whether they glorify nature or revere society, whether they are identified with youth or they are detractors of youth, most adults find it imperative to defuse the awesome vitalities of these monsters, saints, and heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children's attention. While ...parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step,... as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She is not terrified of begonias or telegrams but... surely this nightgown girl, this awesome flyer, has not seen how the moon floats through her and in between.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »