Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

Guilt loves the passive.

I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.

This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.