A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.
After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.
Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.
Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what...
Expect progress, not perfection.
No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.
My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.
The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have...
Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.
The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students the...
Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.
A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
In the context of today, this WAS heroism.
I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.