Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.
When in situations of stress, we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capabilities perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordain...
Expect progress, not perfection.
Christianity is a journey not a destination
My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.
The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.
God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.
This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.
Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.
Pain is holy ground in a person's life.
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.
Time served does not guarantee maturity.
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.
Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, th...