discipleship

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

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.

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

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

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

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.

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.

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

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

He made his character his platform.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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