It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. . . . . We must not. . . . . assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.
When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.