The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness,
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling
The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having tha...
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:1. Stop stressing2. Stop worrying3. Give rest to the problems weighing you down4. Lighten up5. Forgive yourself6. Forgive others
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?