"Most volcanologists die in bed."

“Losers take chances; winners make choices.”

“God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.”

“Where we go wrong is that we bring along some ready-made idea of God, wherever we may have learned it, and then try to make Jesus Christ fit in with that idea of God. But if we take the idea of a revelation of God in Christ seriously, then we must be willing to have our understanding of God corrected and even revolutionized by what we learn in Jesus Christ.”

“I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.”

“If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.”

Source : Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

“There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.”

“We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.”

Source : "Joshua Radin, Singer-Songwriter: So Much To Say, So Much To Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.”