Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.
I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.
Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes to the woods he goes because he needs to. I think he is drawn to the wilderness much as he is drawn to a woman: it is, in its way, his opposite. It is as far as possible unlike his home or his work or anything he will ever manufacture. For that reason he can take from it a solace-an understanding of himself, of what he needs and what he can do without-such as he can find nowhere else.
I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end. . . where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn to most.
We're young men; we're not ready to die.