I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted; then I realized that the interruptions were my work.

While visiting the University of Notre Dame, where I had been a teacher for a few years, I met an older experienced professor who had spent most of his life there. And while we strolled over the beautiful campus, he said with a certain melancholy in his voice, "You know,… my whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that. God himself must reveal it.

Leaders ought never to allow the least motivated members of an organization to set the pace for the others. Rather

When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way.