He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.
Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.
People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances.
You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.
Substance and content over style and hype any day.
Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.
So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go. "
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.