Little touches can make a big difference.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
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...
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward.
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
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.
Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them.