God, the Artist Thou takest the pen– and the lines dance. Thou takest the flute– and the notes shimmer. Thou takest the brush– and the colours sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where Thou art. How, then, can I hold back anything...
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
Many otherwise honest and intellectual people will construct a neat bypass around the claim of Jesus to be God. Being people of insight and imagination, they know perfectly well that once to accept such a claim as fact would mean a readjustment of their own purposes...
Facts, as such, never settled anything. They are working tools only. It is the implications that can be drawn from facts that count, and to evaluate these requires wisdom and judgment that are unrelated to the computer approach to life.
Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are...
Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.
As a company of Christ's people we should accept those who hold another view from our own in a spirit of Christian tolerance--which is not something that tolerates anything because it doesn't care which is right, but a spirit which accepts that as human beings we...