The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ,...

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give...

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

When it comes to biblical counseling, friendship is central to the counseling relationship because it is a key aspect of the Gospel. Paul’s words display it; Jesus’ actions approve it. In Jesus Christ, friendship has...

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it’s easier if you’ve got company.

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for...

Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage and servitude and get. He preached about providing for those who lacked the...

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

I’m not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may,...

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

Sex was to be treated as no other impulse in our nature has ever been treated by civilized people. All the others, we admit, have to be bribed. Absolute obedience to your instinct for self-preservation...

The overemphasis on standardized tests forces teachers to teach the same restricted, unintuitive curriculum. Longtime educator Brent Evans has said that today’s schools are organized as assembly lines, “(running at a set speed) and with...

You have the chief spark of your health’s fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

personal influence,” and gave his junior hints on the setting of kindly traps, in which the boy does give himself away and reveals his shy delicate thoughts, while the master, intact, commends or corrects them.Originally...

freedom of religion.

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming...

Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.

The only way to be productive is to realize we don’t HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

Zero preparation gives zero results. 0x0= 0

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not...

Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to...

Jesus did not spend the same amount of time with everyone. He chose twelve and spent a majority of his time with them. There were toxic people that he spent hardly any time with. For...

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world...

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person’s soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage...

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God’s agenda, we are focusing on our own. God’s agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is...

in the soup” of actual circumstances.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

There are no shortcuts to maturity in discipleship; it was, is, and always will be learned over time and under pressure walking in union with Christ.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They’re personal problems that spill over into relationships.

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.