After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.
Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.
It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.
(. . . ) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (. . . ) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.