32 quotes found
“Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.”
“If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.”
“I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.”
“I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.”
“Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.”
“To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.”
“Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of strange men and women who lived in far-off, benighted places and times. Accordingly, the One who c...”
“The first fruit of love is the musing of the mind on God. He who is in love, his thoughts are ever upon the object. He who loves God is ravished and transported with the contemplation of God. "When...”
“The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.”
“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.”
“Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.”
“The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women...”
“Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them that ask, and so forth. These responses, generally and rightly understood to...”
“We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.”
“Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply die...”
“(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not dim...”
“Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.”
“The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this lifeif indeed we can conceive of it. Yet we have no indication that even Jesus was constantly awash with revela...”
“There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.”
“Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsic futility of relying on human abilities to provide resolution to our problems.”
“Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we can...”
“There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys ...”
“He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire course of world history (Rev. 1:5) while simultaneously preparing the rest of the unive...”
“The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.”
