Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort. You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.
Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.
Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come.
The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.