Perspective

The Long and the Short of It

Having a conversation with the God of the universe isn’t something to be done by rote.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men.

—Albert Einstein

God, grant us…

—Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
—Thomas Edison

In a word, what the soul is to the body, Christians are to the world.

The soul dwells in the body, but is not of the body; likewise Christians dwell in the world, but are not of the world.