It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
I shall die very young. . . maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be.
You can if you think you can.
The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.
We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.