Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to the difference personalities make.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

My feelings are important for many things. They are essential and valuable. They keep me aware of much that is true and real. But they tell me next to nothing about God or my relation to God. My security comes from who God is, not from how I feel. Discipleship is a decision to live by what I know about God, not by what I feel about Him or my neighbors.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

The show business, which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.