Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

Courage encourages courage.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

The culture were live in ripples through our daily lives, sending messages about what is considered "normal" and healthy by society.

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses