The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.
Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.
I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.
We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action
The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
There is not a situation in life where there isn't a hymn and a Scripture to meet the need. I'm thankful for the Word of God, and I praise Him for the privilege of still being able to memorize.
Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.
It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.
It's not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that's important.
What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment, facing this siege, facing the tragedy of their families - the poverty of their families. Some of them, they didn't find food to eat. What do you expect from them? In spite of death, our people are still patient. But patience has limits.
Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.
I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances.
I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.
I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.
I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.
However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.
These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are just a nuisance. But in your inner world there can be a continuity of lights, songs, joys. Always remember that society compensates you when it feels that the repressed may explode into a dangerous situation if it is not compensated. Society finds some way of allowing you to let out the repressed. But this is not true celebration, and it cannot be true.
But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.
An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.
