Right now, there are people literally considering leaving their homes to gather with others for worship, wondering: -If I go, can I stand or sit in that area of the sanctuary where we sat together for 18 years before his passing without sobbing so loud I'll distract...
Rather than defining success by the brand of clothing we can afford, may we find it in the number of people we have helped to clothe.
Whenever one person stands up and says, "Wait a minute--this is wrong," it helps other people to do the same.
Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not "How can we hide our wounds?" so we don't have to be embarrassed, but "How can we put our woundedness in the service of...
If I were a betting woman, I’d bet 10 bucks some of the meanest, relentlessly condemning people do in the dark the very thing they condemn in the light. I wish I had the luxury of a background that wouldn’t make me suspect smokescreens of loudmouth Bible police. But I...
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with...
If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you will not seek in your life to please anyone but God. (circa 387)
If you're in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help--the only ones. from The Grapes of Wrath
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. --------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: A body of people holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it.