That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.
You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.
I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.