It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments
Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.
A place where we all go can't be bad.
That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.