How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years?
First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do and how can I make the country better? How can I improve it?
Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.
Consensus doesn't happen by magic. . . You have to drive to it.