Author
Thomas Merton
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end."
Harold J. Ockenga
"There has evolved today a different emphasis … one that is able to say, ‘Christ is the answer. Christ is the answer to your sin problem. Christ is the answer in the biblical framework of reference because there is no other Christ. Christ is the answer when he and his teachings and biblical Christianity become translated into the framework of the social picture in which we live."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth."
Karl Rahner
"In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished."
“The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.”
C.S. Lewis
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors."
A.W. Tozer
"We habitually think of the visible world as real and doubt the reality of any other."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Corrie ten Boom
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."