There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are...
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
When a blind man says, 'God is good,' this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.