Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

The Bible is God's love letter to us