That Is Life. Quotes
I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.
God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.
Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.
According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay
The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.
He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.
A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.
True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.
The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.
On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?
A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.
You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.
In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.
Your job is to abide in my pastureEating sweet grass and drinking pure water, And sharing both with others—That is a lamb’s business.
Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.
We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.
The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.
Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.
I’ve tried everything else, I’ll try God.“- Cherie.
Church History is the record of God's gracious, wonderful and mighty deeds, showing how by his Spirit and Word he rules his Church and conquers the world.
Your uniqueness is the master key that unlocks the hidden treasures of your lifetime.
Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.
As the master builder of your own life, build an open space, with room for your soul to breath, and be free.
Love is a practice of self-mastery.
Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all times.
Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you
The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.
The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow.
From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?
Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits.
Success is finding your own path in life.
If you are not on your path of purpose, you will only have misery in your life.
Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.
Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one else to blame. If you will and you do, the world will beat a path to your doorstep…
Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away, but that it changes my perception and experience within them.~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details
If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.
God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.
Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.
education without inspiration is only recipe for desperation
Do not despair. Have faith. It is going to work out and you will be delivered.
Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.
In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.
The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.
