There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Everything is easy. However, the ways to make difficult things easy, sometimes it's not easy (Totok R. Biyanto)

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy sometimes, or it's just things that I don't necessarily want. I don't really necessarily want to be famous.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.