Jim Berg Quotations

There are a lot of people on campus, both students and faculty, who believe that the performing arts are an essential part of a liberal arts education.

We offer a couple of courses every year on beginning acting, but nothing that leads to any public performance. In music, we have a couple courses and individual lessons, but no performing ensembles, bands, choirs. As far as dance goes, we don't have anything.

This will make it meaningful, and especially if it is part of the River Parade and the two other parades.

Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.

Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted a needy soul have been skillfully designed by the Creator for one purpose: to draw men to Himself.

Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us –- not someone like the rest of the world –- if we are to have any godly influence on them.

A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.

Health plans are a central focus of any labor negotiation that goes on today.