To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.
- T.S. Eliot

From Philip Yancey
...the miracles in the authentic Gospels are about love, not power.

Human beings grow by striving, working, stretching; and in a sense, human nature needs problems more than solutions. Why not all prayers answered magically and instantly? Why must every convert travel the same tedious path of spiritual discipline? Because persistent prayer, and fasting, and study, and meditation are designed primarily for our sakes, not for God's. We yearn for shortcuts, but shortcuts usually lead away from growth, not toward it.

I say this with great care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. Such prayers may set conditions for God. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite. Through faith, the unseen world increasingly takes shape as the real world and sets the course for how we live in the seen world.

Each one of us must choose whether to live as if God exists, or as if he does not exist.

If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me. - Frederick Buechner

At the heart of the universe is a smile, a pulse of joy passed down from the moment of creation. - Loren Eiseley

The road to success is always under construction. Arnold Palmer

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney

Faith is daring to go further than the eye can see. Anon

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. Albert Eistein

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johson

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same – Carlos Castaneda

沒有污雲 、沒有暴風雨， 便沒有美麗的彩虹。

征服自己需要更大的勇氣， 其勝利也是所有勝利中最光榮的勝利。

人可以攀至登巔，郤不能在那裡逗留太久。

哥倫布是憑着信念發現了新大陸， 而不是憑着航海圖。

勞動教養了身體，學習教養了心靈。

說教的男人通常都是偽善者， 說教的女人必然沒有才德。

假如你不會替人捲繃帶，就不可以去觸摸人家的傷處。

幸福的人常是善良的。

愉快的性格是成功的靈感。

懷着憂愁上床， 是背負着包袱睡覺

一磅毅力值一噸幸運。

朋友邀宴， 可以緩往；

朋友有難，必需速赴

不忘笑臉的人常受歡迎。

謙讓別人就是處世之道。

忘懷你窮困的日子， 不過，可別忘記它給你的教訓。

匆促可敗事，踏實可成事。

倘使成功有秘訣的話，那就是要有理解他人的立場，同時，站在自己的立場和他人的立場，看各種事物的能力。

多聽，少說， 接受每個人的責難， 但要保留你的最後裁決。

最聰明的人可以從一個最卑微的人那裡學到一點東西。

任何光艷華麗的明珠， 任何美人鬢邊的寶石， 任何襯托夜空的明星， 或是晨曦中的燦爛旭日， 都及不上為別人的災難所滴下頰邊淚珠那樣閃燿着聖潔的光輝。

愚昧者知其一不知其二， 見其所見而不見其所不見，故於事難克有濟； 唯智者能軟能剛大勇莒若怯；大智若愚。

洪水可以從涓滴細流中發生，大海有時也會出乎奇蹟的乾涸；

最有把握的希望， 往往結果失敗；

希望最渺茫的事情，反會出乎意料的成功。

最貧的是無才, 最賤的是無志。

勸告很少受人歡迎； 最需要勸告的人， 永遠最不喜歡接受勸告。

不能結交新朋友的人，是失去了生活的藝術。

沒有受過傷的人，才會譏笑別人身上的創痕。

「健全的身體」與「健全的思想」是生活中的兩大至福。

決定問題需要智慧， 執行時需要耐心。

人們往往將生命消耗於懷念已往，埋怨現狀，及擔憂將來上去。

旅行是真正知識的偉大泉源。