I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.
Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.
I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice.
The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.
Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.
God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in st...
It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.
In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.
Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.
I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than we cherish the goal itself. For if we fall victim to the pursuit of the goal alone, then the goal h...
We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give.
When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which...
To be bold is to be wise enough to realize that fear is the energy that fuels action.
Judging others shackles them to the cold iron of our limited notions.
Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.
Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?
I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the ver...
Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance.
There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.
The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.
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