You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.
There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.
There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!
The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.
When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.