Abgespalten / Severed Beeinflussen / Influence Ehe / Marriage Gesellschaft / Society Gut / Good Kann nicht / Cannot Kulturell / Cultural Natürlich / Natural Ohne / Without Religiös / Religious Schwächung / Weakening Wurzeln / Roots
God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
