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.
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 point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else.
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.
pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.
Happiness is activity of soul.
The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.
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.
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
We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness
The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the...
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes th...
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...
Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.
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