The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You’ve not gone too far!
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
God loves you as though you are the only person in the world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.
Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.
God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.
The things of nature are the Lord’s silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.
Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.
When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.