In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion--or a new form of Christianity--based on faith in financial mi...racles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My Love in me and I in him, Conjoined by love, will till abide... Among the faithful lilies Till day do break, and truth do dim All shadows dark and cause them slide, According as his will is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To make life more bearable and pleasant for everybody, choose the issues that are significant enough to fight over, and ignore or ...use distraction for those you can let slide that day. Picking your battles will eliminate a number of conflicts, and yet will still leave you feeling in control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There shall the Queens of Love and Innocence, Beauty, and Nature banish all offense... From our close ivy twines, there I'll behold Thy bared snow and thy unbraided gold. There my enfranchised hand on every side Shall o'er thy naked polished ivory slide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never straightens h...is knee joints, he stoops with his fat ill- shapen shoulders, and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on a...ny excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era,--then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,... Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And this, because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature,... but one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked to walk up a ladder to sa...ve the trouble of preparing a drop for him. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am not used to this business. Shall I jump off or slide off?" He was told to jump.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thoug...ht that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »