The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.

They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.