If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).

So true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations.

Whenever there was a dilemma, I just left it in abeyance and—without really consciously dealing with it intensively—let it grow toward the clarity of a decision. But this clarity is not so much intellectual as it is instinctive. The decision is made; whether one can adequately justify it retrospectively is another question. "Thus" it happened that I went. Bonhoeffer was always thinking about thinking.

It is hoped and believed," he famously wrote, "that the Lord has raised you up for the good of His church and for the good of the nation.

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I don't regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so.

I don't know what my future holds. I'm gonna love playing football for as long as I can, but there's a lot of other things that I would love to accomplish.

Literally, my honeymoon was driving to Chicago.