I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.
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.
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...
Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginn...
To be bold is to be wise enough to realize that fear is the energy that fuels action.
Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?
Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.
It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.
To put others in front of ourselves is to put God in front of everything.
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.
There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.
Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.
If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream...
We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give.
Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance.
Human beings manifesting the fullness of who they were created to be would be inviting and correspondingly transformational in a manner almost mysterious.
Jesus came to give us life to the very edges of life.
Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.
Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness.
The service of self terminates at our own death.