Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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.
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.