Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.

Beginning a short series on education: The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less chapter is a fruitless chapter. Prayer spells all the difference between working for God in our own strength and wisdom or being fellow laborers together with Him in the work that He is seeking to do in the University.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

"Faith is that ethereal substance which requires an action that is based holy (sic) upon a reasonable supposition born of belief and that seas (sic) a pre-determined result to eventually occur from that action which will in turn re-provide that reasonable basis upon which that action was originally predicated". "The unified-field-theory of Christian ethics is the giving of oneself to others in service motivated by a heart of love that is guided by the Holy Spirit".

"The 'unified field theory' of Christian theology is: Jesus is God". "The journey is the destination: the way on is the way home". "To revisit everything you think you know is to rediscover what you had yet to learn".

Ascension If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning -- just as, if there were no light in the universe, and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know that it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.