Let's be clear: Has the U. S. ever made any mistakes? Of course. Is the U. S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.
The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.
Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.