Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
Always take a job that is too big for you.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world – making the most of one’s best.
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.