As Christ's ambassadors we are called to embody the values and character of the one who sent us. We are to be the tangible demonstration of the love, character, and truth of Christ as we live out our faith in a very public way. Living out your faith doesn't require...
I think awe is an exercise, both a doing and a being. It is a spiritual muscle of our humanity that we can only keep from atrophying if we exercise it habitually…Awe is not a lens through which to see the world but our sole path to seeing. Any other lens is not a lens...
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make.Something you do.Something you are.And something you give away.
The task is not to get God to do something I think needs done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can participate in it.
We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything we are wasting our time. But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be...
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life--about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
It's not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"