One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance renewed daily of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
God has been very good to me for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it I always see some other virtue in that person.
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute every breath is a gift from God.
He was an embittered atheist the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness a covenant between radically different persons male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen a covenant between radically different partners.
I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou 'cause I'm not!
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books for they speak with the voice of God.
I've always been - you know my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news but in hindsight I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.