A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. |
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. |
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it |
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. |
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. |
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. |
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. |
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. |
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. |
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. |
God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done |
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. |
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. |
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. |
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. |