Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.