I had this one rock band I used to listen to, but I forgot the name of them.
It is in the context. . . of the body in Christ that we understand who we are and where we fit.
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.
I only need a mirror to see a sinner.
When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.
To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.
Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.
Paste Magazine needs to stay in business! It's the first non-sensational quality music and film publication that doesn't only attempt to appeal to middle-aged male Bob Dylan completionists! And there are still many of us who love to pick up a print magazine instead of going online.
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . . you're black.
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.