To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.
I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.
If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.
Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.