Soon the sun will set’- is that prophecy? No, it’s merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God’s constant presence with ‘the real me.’ Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
If we do not become changed from the inside-out – if we don’t morph – we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we’re different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.