I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

Individuals and church bodies are often caught in the paralysis of analysis. We

I think, therefore I doubt.

Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.

He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?

A priest and a philosopher are two different things

So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conclusion for yourself as to what life is all about.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

People who are experiencing a problem are the most likely to know its solution.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.