Occupation: Physician Birth: May 12, 1898 Death: October 7, 1986
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the….
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at….
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags;….
Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting ….
The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go ….
It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who fe….
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If….
In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we ha….
God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in….
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can..
I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and t….
If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success..
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious..
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condi….
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance,….
...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought..
God's favorites, especially God's favorites, are not immune from the bewildering times when God seems silent. Where there is no longer any opportunit….
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single..
Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy..
Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf..
The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong..