You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed. "
The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity
Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.
Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood.
So many times, you get a script and it says, "And then, the character cries," and you read the lines and think, "That would never make me cry. Those lines are so untruthful. " My approach is just to be honest to the situation.
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.
I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod.