The curse is, you will be tempted to believe that you can live your life off your gifts and not do the deep work of character formation. Your gifts can take you only so far. But there are no such limits when it comes to a life marked by deep character. --from The...
Children are not a class or kind, they are a heterogeneous collection of immature persons, varying, as persons do, in their reach, and in their ability to extend it when stimulated. As soon as you limit your vocabulary to what you suppose to be within their reach, you...
Linus, a member of the Peanuts gang, once said, "Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." Too many of us limit the scope of our lives and use only a fraction of our potential.
Not everything that was done in the Bible has a universal, timeless, or useful application. What is a timeless principle is that both men and women should be taking their lead from Jesus. We should be emulating his character, and displaying and using the fruit and...
True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared. There is no end to the sharing of love, &, therefore, the potential happiness of such love is without limit.
The bias of the criminal justice system must be to strictly limit the power of the state over its citizens as far as this is possible while protecting the safety of others. State officials must never lose a sense of the grave dangers of their power. from Introducing...
What a distortion of the gospel it is to have limited sympathies and unlimited certainties!
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.
I see more clearly, now that I am aging. Not with my eyesight, but with my soul. I see the fine detail of what I missed in younger years. I see the place of faith and forgiveness in my story. I see the possibilities of life in ways I never imagined. I was not blind in...