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- In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a…
- Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from…
- Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving…
- Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us…
- Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is…
- If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.
- God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.
- God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.
- God has somehow placed into Christian's insides a special something, that extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff…
- That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we…
- God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we…
- The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.
- Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the…
- Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is…
- The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds…
- The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.
- We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were…
- It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right…
- We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called…
- You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to…
- The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our…
- Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize…
- Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps…
- God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands…
- Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong