Need for Rest

In The Twenty Four Hour Society, Martin Moore-Ede says our most notorious industrial accidents in recent years—Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, ...

What Really Matters

The question to ask at the end of life's race is not so much "What have I accomplished?" but "Whom have I loved, and how courageously?"

An Ant’s Publishing Life

I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing. The world today and the history of the human anthill during the past five to seven years would ...

Pastors Who Cannot Preach

There are pastors who cannot preach, but I think a "preacher" who cannot preach is like a clock that doesn't run. It's called a clock, ...

The World Is Mine

I was coming back from Ridgecrest a few years ago, and there had been three thousand students or so. They show up everywhere--for a whole week. Finally ...

The Power of Individuals

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much--the companies never. It is the units, the single individuals, that are the ...

The World Belongs to the Servant

I walked through Children's Hospital in Omaha not too long ago, and I saw a little baby boy there, below two years of age, with tubes running in and out ...

The Importance of Perspective

A man came to a construction site, where stonemasons were working. The man said to one, "What are you doing?"

The stonemason said, "You ...

Christians Must Work

There's no such thing as Christians who do not work. It's a work of service. You can't build a home without work. You can't build a church ...

Our Perception of Time

We terribly overestimate what we can do in one year and underestimate what we can do in five.