The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.
We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
In the context of today, this WAS heroism.
I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.
God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the da...
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.
Help our response, Lord, not to be, "WHAT are You doing?!" Instead, give us the perspective to ask, "Lord, what would You teach?
Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.
Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You?
Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even t...
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.
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
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...
Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we shou...
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
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.
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.
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.
Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.