He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.
Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a person with...
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.
I fall down I get up I fall down And the while I keep dancing.
In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling his twoness-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark bo...
I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smoot...
The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.
The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
[Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say "you *might* be my witnesses," or "you *could* be my witnesses," or even "you *should* be my witnesses." He...
Help our response, Lord, not to be, "WHAT are You doing?!" Instead, give us the perspective to ask, "Lord, what would You teach?
The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being "born again" but little time on "growing up" again. There is a failing to encourage newborn believers out of the maternity ward and i...
Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions, and gifts, our human needs and eternal aspirations....
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.
Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.
Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.