When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
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...
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...