 These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too. Topics: Good and Evil |
| But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared. Topics: Life, Joy
Source: Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows |
| Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning. Topics: Life |
| I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life is not to make you number one in the world's eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate. Topics: Life, Prayer |
| I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones." Topics: Life |
| The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life. Topics: Life |
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| The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down. Topics: Life |
| You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live. Topics: Life |
| Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. Topics: Love, The Heart |
| Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. Topics: Love |
| The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness. Topics: Love, Justice, Forgiveness |
| Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. Topics: Marriage |
