“Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.”
Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
“Peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.”
Source: Peter Pan
“A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.”
Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
“To learn new things one has to be open and vulnerable..”
“Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.”
Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
“his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,”
Source: The Powers That Be
“Sometimes believing is as simple as choosing to do so.”
Source: Of Men Made Gods
“College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.”
“Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace, and also, This has been going on a long time.”
Source: The Long Goodbye