Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.
I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God.
Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own...
More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas.
Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.
To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these,...
With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.
Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate, but it is crafted hard by the hands of God.
There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at the very point of that very surrender, when I became convinced that I must bow...
In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.
I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.
While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort
Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my gras...
That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.
Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the...
Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.
Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.
Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achi...
Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.
Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate. Rather, it is something crafted hard by the hands of God.
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