It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.
You do what you want to for Passion, you do what you have to for Obligation.
When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free. 6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.
We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.
When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.
I have realized that nothing else matters besides this: Am I doing everything God has put me on this earth to do?
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.