life on planet earth on Puzzles

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.”

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Trials are the ruler and scale to reveal in our lives.

The lesson that games can teach us is simple. Games aren’t appealing because they are fun, but because they are limited. Because they erect boundaries. Because we must accept their structures in order...

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashio...

If you think of a problem as being like a medieval walled city, then a lot of people will attack it head-on, like a battering ram. They will storm the gates and try to smash through the defenses with ...

Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

If Laughter cannot solve your problems, it will definitely DISSOLVE your problems; so that you can think clearly what to do about them.

Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech.

Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question—you have to ...

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

What worries you, masters you.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

We are the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

Our age dislikes intensely the idea of mystery because it directly exposes our limitations. The thought that there could be something, or someone, beyond human comprehension or imagining is, of course...

Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

We don’t know what’s going on here. If these tremendous events are random combinations of matter run amok, the yield of millions of monkeys at millions of typewriters, then what is it in us, hammered ...

I am tangled up in contradictions. I am strangled by my own two hands. I am hunted by the hounds of addiction.!

Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all...

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you ...

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Occasionally we talk about our Christianity as something that solves problems, and there is a sense in which it does. Long before it does so, however, it increases both the number and the intensity of...

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.