Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.

Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?

The more honor, the more danger.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.