To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, ...but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause th...em to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing--"Carry a message to Garcia!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve the ...world and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Ch...rist God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject... of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »