Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our serv...
