In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.