The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.
What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.
It's absolutely imperative that you speak forth the Word concerning you, because until you do, it will have no power and it won't work!
God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.
The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.