How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

Missional churches act faithfully and intentionally wherever God gives them opportunity.

There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.