God never encourages self-reliance.

Last words of his mother to his father: “Keep eternity before the children.

We have created a culture of leadership “development” in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.

The better you get, the better you better get.

The “show business,” which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord’s conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we...

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.

Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are anxious that all they do shall be esteemed and praised), they consider that...

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air....

Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have...

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

we all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

Planning has no magic whereby you can elicit figs from thistles or choke-pears from vines. The rich, sappy, fruit-laden tree will bear sweetness, and strength and spiritual health: the dry, prickly, withered tree will teach...

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me,...

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He’s the One Who says we also need human friends.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires’ astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

There is only One on record who has practiced Christianity in every respect at every moment of his life – Christ himself. In that sense, there are no practicing Christians, but only Christians who, in...

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, “My heart resumed its place.” Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been “as much afraid of me as...

Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur...

The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is...

the decision to stand unapologetically for the gospel has been tantamount to a new conversion. It brings peace; it dissolves fears; it snaps fingers at ridicule.

Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the door, and the journey ends. They are not being allowed, encouraged, or equipped...

You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through...

To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

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 capabilities perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No...

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you’re 15, you tend to never lose it.

Someone once said that Stephen Austin didn’t like preachers at all. He swore that “one preacher could stir up more trouble than a dozen horse thieves.” Matthew’s Gospel reminds us that it is the role...

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

You can’t grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right...

If we spend our days trying to avoid the landmines of stepping out of God’s will, then will be afraid to take any risks for his kingdom. But when you know there is a net...

It is very bad to reach the stage of thinking deeply and frequently about duty unless you are prepared to go a stage further. The Law, as St. Paul first clearly explained, only takes you...

Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back...

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don’t hold nothing back.