I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you're just trying to take care of yourself, you're part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight.
Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.
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.
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.