The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's life to others.
God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here. ’
It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.
Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.
God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.
Loving the process. I learn it over and again and in different ways. I'm speaking particularly to the musical process, but I definitely think that this lesson transcends. Loving the life process. Loving the process of becoming stronger by experiencing something that makes me feel unsteady. The process of speaking and living my truth and making my own path.
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling. . . every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.