Occupation: Physician Birth: May 12, 1898 Death: October 7, 1986
Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps withou….
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 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….
That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run a….
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life..
We do not posses God. We find him periodically..
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it ….
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….
No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person..
Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him w….
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,….
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance..
What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the st….
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious..
...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought..
If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success..
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of sel….
The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong..
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….
Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting ….
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;….