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“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”
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“Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.”
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In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.”
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“Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.”
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“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.”
― Living Under Tension Sermons On Christianity Today
― Living Under Tension Sermons On Christianity Today
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
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“The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl.
-In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis”
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-In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis”
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“He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.”
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“Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
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“Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.”
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“He who chooses the beggining of the road chooses the place it leads to”
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“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”
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“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.”
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“The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.”
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“I'd rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”
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“Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master.”
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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”
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“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
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“Membenci orang lain adalah laksana membakar rumah kita sendiri untuk mengusir seekor tikus.”
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“the best part of prayer is our listening to God. Sometimes in the Scripture a prayer of urgent and definite petition rises, "Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!" (Job 6:8); but another sort of prayer is very frequently indicated: "Speak; for thy servant heareth" (I Sam. 3:10); "My soul, wait thdu in silence for God only; For my expectation is from him" (Psalm 62:5); "I will hear what God Jehovah -will speak" (Psalm 85:8); or in Luther's version of Psalm 37: 7, "Be silent to God and let him mold thee." Without such openheartedness to God, some things which he wills never can be done.”
― The Meaning of Prayer
― The Meaning of Prayer
“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
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“Men are given to complaining of unanswered prayer, but the great disasters are due to answered prayers.”
― The Meaning of Prayer
― The Meaning of Prayer
“There is one sense, however, in which answer to prayer can always be depended on, if a man has kept his life at all in harmony with God. Even when God cannot answer affirmatively the man's petition he can answer the man.”
― The Meaning of Prayer
― The Meaning of Prayer
“Once when Ole Bull, the great violinist, was giving a concert in Paris, his “A” string snapped and he transposed the composition and finished it on three strings. That is life- to have your “A” string snap and finish on three strings.”
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“I have heard stories from the depths of human lives where men and women were wrestling with the elemental problems of misery and sin--stories that put upon a man's heart a burden of vicarious sorrow, even though he does but listen to them. Here was real human need crying out after the living God revealed in Christ. Consider all the multitudes of men who so need God, and then think of Christian churches making of themselves a cockpit of controversy when there is not a single thing at stake in the business. So much of it does not matter! And there is one thing that does matter--more than anything else in all the world--that men in their personal lives and in their social relationships should know Jesus Christ.”
― Shall the Fundamentalists Win?: Or The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith
― Shall the Fundamentalists Win?: Or The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith
“Prayer, in this more inclusive sense, is the settled craving of a man's heart, good or bad, his inward love and determining desire.”
― The Meaning of Prayer
― The Meaning of Prayer
“There are many prayers that God must not answer, but there are no good prayers which God cannot answer.”
― The Meaning of Prayer
― The Meaning of Prayer
“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.”
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“No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.”
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“He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to”
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“The world moves so fast now that the person who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
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