God will facilitate, but He will not force.
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.
Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.
Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.
Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?
There is no democracy of facts.
Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.
God’s extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.
Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That’s how we overcome, most of the time. It’s not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.
How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?
How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!
Listening is one of the forms of love.
As we come closer to Him, we not only “stand all amazed”-we even kneel all amazed!
The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.
Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.
I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don’t like me, Must leave me alone.
When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed.
Celestial criteria measures service, not status.