True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.
The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.
The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.
Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.
We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.
Greed is the fast-track to poverty.
Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.
Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.
In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.
Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of e...
Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in t...
Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse.
I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.
What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might be wise to consider the state of my soul, and then walk this process backwards.
I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.
Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, a...
Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.
Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.
In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.
My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings.
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