We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
Faith • Suffering • Trust
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
History • Philosophy • Religion
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
Faith • Religion • Spirituality
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Comfort • Despair • Truth
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
Age • Children • Entertainment
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
Movement
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Goals • Inspiration • Motivational
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Reality
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
Books • Reading
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
Existentialism • Philosophy • Spirituality
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
Character • Kindness • Love
