Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best – better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His.
It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.
When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod “the winepress alone” anything about feeling forsaken.
To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken – all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us – because He loves us.
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.
Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.
All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.