We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!
Good homes are still the best source of good humans.
Anger should never be an overnight guest.
It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.
Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God’s timing, we really are suggesting that we know what’s best. Strange isn’t it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.
Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.
It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.
No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
We should not assume, however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.
The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?
Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.