Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Love is not what you say; love is what you do
I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, that there was to be a homosexual parade on the Monday that the Katrina came, and the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing, and I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.
Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?
We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day.
The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves. "
Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.