“Paradoxically, we come to know God best not by looking at God exclusively, but by looking at God and then looking at ourselves—then looking at God, and then again looking at ourselves. This is also the way we best come to know our selves. Both God and self are mostly fully known in relationship to each other.”
― The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery
― The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery
“When we are alone with God, the Spirit prays in us. The challenge is to develop a simple discipline or spiritual practice to embrace some empty time and empty space every day.”
― Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
― Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
“If the government controls, guarantees, channels, or directs investment, it is not capitalism. Pivotal to the investment process is interest rates. For entrepreneurs to control capital, interest rates must reflect its real cost rather than merely the cost of printing money. Otherwise the money printers will dominate investment.”
― The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does
― The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does
“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time
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