It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God.

I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

That God, Who dwells in my hand, Knows this secret plan Of the things He will do for the world Using my hand!

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin may wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning at life.

Love is creation raised to a higher degree.

The darkness is a holy of holies of which no one can rob me. In the darkness I meet God face to face.

Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight

The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it.

If you are smart be simple. If you are powerful be generous. If you are rich be humble. If you want to be smart be simple. If you want to be powerful be generous. If you want to be rich be humble.

(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.

Create the space and a bigger life happens

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Wherever a man lives, he may live well.

The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.