The same sun that melts wax hardens clay. In
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next person. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are p...
Prayer: Lord, I praise you—though with fear and trembling—that you are the judge of all the earth. Deliver me from the temptation to want to sit in judgment on certain people. I cannot see into anyone...
Marriage is a major vehicle for the gospel's remaking of your heart from the inside out and your life from the ground up.
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as . . . not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some so...
Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually b...
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Pride is an all-around evil. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vic...
Is there anyone or anything that can separate me from Christ’s love for me? And
If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're loo...
God varies his strategies too, and continually extends mercy to us in new ways, even though we neither understand nor deserve it.
Death was not part of God’s original design. We were not created to age, weaken, fade, and die. We were not created for love relationships that end in death. Death is an intrusion, a result of sin and...
God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior
حتى الأشخاص اللذين يظلون أوفياء لنا يموتون و يرحلون عنا, أو نموت نحن و نرحل عنهم
When the Spirit enables us to understand what Christ has done for us, the result is a life poured out in deeds of justice and compassion for the poor.5
The revival cycles in Judges become weaker and weaker as time goes on, while in Acts they grow wider and stronger. We need a true Savior, to which all human saviors point, through both their flaws and...
Religion is not the place where the problem of man’s egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between human pride and God’s grace takes place. Insofar as human pri...
Regret is sorrow over the consequences of a sin, but not over the sin itself. If there had been no consequences, there would have been no sorrow. There is no sorrow over the sin for what it is in itse...
Not only do your desires contradict, but they also are elusive. What are the wants of the self? Bellah asks. For all its unmistakable presence and intensity on occasion, the experience of feeling good...
Meditate on these things, and the truth will change your identity. It will convince you of your real, inestimable value.