We can’t dwell upon another’s ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.
The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.
I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.
We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice – for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.
God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
Mother lode of learning.
Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
Don’t fear, just live right.
We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.
Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.
A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.
Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing “things as they really are.”
You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.
As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.
A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn’t be very impressive, for instance, if they weren’t specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as ’thou shalt not be a bad person.
Oh, how great the plan of our God!
The “new” in us is bound to notice the “old” that remains.