How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

That person has a cross to bear.” Granted, whatever kind of suffering we have is suffering that we can bear in confidence that God is with us. But the cross that Jesus had to face,...

you don’t have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the gospel isn’t only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus,...

It’s much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments.

It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his...

They fed the same diet to all and seemed wholly unaware that there was such a thing as meat in due season.

A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their...

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): “What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to...

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges...

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.

The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is...

When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another are no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we...

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

You can’t guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi

Prayer is listening.

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag’s, do rage the more.

Job calls for a higher standard than drive-by donation. He has treated the destitute not as social experiments or exhibits in philanthropy but as HONORED FAMILY MEMBERS.

When I push the button on my laptop, it should start up. If it doesn’t, it can’t blame its nonexistent emotions. It should respond immediately and appropriately because that’s what it has been created to...

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead “freed his mind” from worry and...

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only...

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can’t give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

It’s easy to give God a list of excuses for not feeling worthy or as capable as someone else, in our service to him. The problem is that God doesn’t call those who are unprepared...

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they...

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

I suppose it’s unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman’s joy at the sight of a superior performance.

Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer’s pilgrims want a place of man’s true home: paradise

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking...

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

There’s a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

‎Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers. It’s that simple. Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love...

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. … One thing you discover about spear throwers is that...

The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it’s like to love like He loved. It is there, in our personal upper room, where we learn to...

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents’) focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.