George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
mistake soul care
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.
weakness
Will is not unfrequently weakness.
vengeance sin executioners
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
mold fingers loveliness
God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
selfishness redemption littles
There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.
farewell believe evil
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.
religion would-be world
If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!
flirting games bird
There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.
leaving evolution revelations
Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to him, and is always leaving his intent and perfected work behind it. Science is always going farther and farther away from the point where his work culminates in revelation.
cheating simple soul
There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.
reader ifs
If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
future preparation lasts
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
gaps immortality middle
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
hell said diplomatic
As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.