Quotes about Transition

It's interesting that the original phrase in the late 1500s was "God be with Ye." The contraction of that phrase was "Goodbwye" which eventually became "goodbye."….. I wonder, when Jesus watched the rich young ruler walk away, what was the look in His eyes? I wonder, when Peter denied Jesus and abandoned Him just before Jesus went to the cross, what was the goodbye like?

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

In Heaven, it is always Autumn.

The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.

After I finish a phone call and before I start something else, I simply pause. When I pull into work in the morning and when I pull into my driveway in the evening, I pause.

The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)