maturation

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel

When I push the button on my laptop, it should start up. If it doesn__, it can__ blame its nonexistent emotions. It should respond immediately and appropriately because that__ what it has been created to do.In evaluating my parenting, I realized much of my anger with my children arose from my having the wrong perspective about them. I was viewing them as if they were machines.

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things.

The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bodies, who are burdened with too much knowledge about how the world works rather than excited about how it could work or should, who are afraid of being judged and not being loved. Most adults do not live in a world of forgiveness and unconditional love, unless, that is, they have small children.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.