discipleship

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.

The overemphasis on standardized tests forces teachers to teach the same restricted, unintuitive curriculum. Longtime educator Brent Evans has said that today's schools are organized as assembly lines, "(running at a set speed) and with each worker (teacher) at designated places (way levels) on the assembly line performing predetermined actions on products (students) considered to be somewhat generic (one-size-fits-all) and passive (waiting to be filled or formed to the desired shape).

Intersections are crash magnets.

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.

A good officer learned to take care of the feet of his men first, and from there their stomachs and hearts. By that means, he could motivate their souls.

the real tests of life can come a child__ way at any moment,