Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have this day done one thing because He said, "Do it," or once abstained because He said, "Do not do it." It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do...
God,Grant that I may pass through the coming year with a faithful heart. There will be much to test me and make weak my strength before the year ends.In my confusion I shall often say the word that is not true and do the thing of which I am ashamed. There will be...
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
The one who has truly worshiped will have a sense of peace and a confident expectation of what God is about to do. True worship produces a transformed life, reflecting the One who has been worshiped. from Experiencing God, Day by Day
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough. Just do it.
God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.-----------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: God requires not the doing of the commandments for their...
What you do in the present--by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself--will last into God's future. from Surprised by...
We'll become in our lives what we do with our love.
I am only one. But I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.