One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
Self-improveme nt is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
Make your life about something bigger than your life.