"I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book."

“Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but I, old fool, know less than you and worry over everything, instead of simply trusting in the heavenly Father’s care.”

Source : Richard Wurmbrand (1968). “Christ in the Communist Prisons”

“Life is to be experienced, not fought against, run from, or engaged halfheartedly. Though we may wish to make changes in the future, to be conscious is to be with an experience as it’s unfolding, rather than thinking about how we would like to change it. Taking charge of our life so that we alter the quality of our experiences in the future comes after an experience.”

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”

“The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.”

Source : G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.493, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.”

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.”

“An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport,”

Source : "Why buses represent democracy in action". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2013.