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.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.
Happiness is activity of soul.
I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.
There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.
The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.
The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else.
The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R
Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was...
Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.
The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
there was a common understanding that religion generally served the powerful, who manipulated the words of the gods and prophets to justify their greed and lust for power. Yet Christianity comes in nu...
Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.
I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures
you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhe...
We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.
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