My answer to a friend: There is no success in ministry, only service and moments of celebration. If you choose to minister, expect to be misunderstood. All of the pain people carry will fall upon your brow, and you shall be the stand-in for every ignorant statement...
According to Matthew, the whole grand experiment hangs on what happens with Joseph... The child is Joseph's until he says otherwise...the issue at stake is not a biological one but a legal one... Will he believe the impossible and give it a home or will he stick with...
We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. Aside from painting and gardening, I am good for nothing. I would like to paint the way a bird...
Defenders of the faith are inclined to be bitter until they learn to walk in the light of the Lord. When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible. from Biblical Psychology
Hope is impossible to drown; just when you think it has sunk to the bottom, up it pops in another location.
It's nearly impossible to love our neighbors if we don't know our neighbors. And herein lies the tension of our times: We live in such a connected world with such limited or nonexistent connections. Relationships matter. Stories matter.
It is quite impossible for any of us to measure ourselves and estimate our progress. Our job, having found the path we honestly believe God wishes us to follow, is to go quietly on with it and leave the results to Him! from Letters (February 21,...
Christians, we have maintained, are those who through confrontation with death are given new freedom from the sting of death and so a new freedom for voluntary service to others. Surely if this claim has any truth in it, then it is not our own suffering but the...
The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for his almighty power. Nothing is too small for his love....