Life is not about being rich, being popular, being highly educated, or being perfect. It's about being real, being humble, and being kind.
04330 – Life is About…
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03835 – Arrogance & Perfection
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life--becoming a better person. -----------------------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: An arrogant person...
03728 – Transformation
Transformation has little to do with intelligence, willpower, or perfection. It has everything to do with honest humility, willingness, and surrender.
03343 – Choose Love!
Today I will choose love.Tomorrow I will choose love.And the day after that, I will choose love. If I mistakenly choose distraction, perfection, or negativity over love, I will not wallow in regret.I will choose love until it becomes who I am.
03328 – Give Me Wholeness
Spare me perfection. Give me instead the wholeness that comes from embracing the full reality of who I am, just as I am.
03173 – Grace Has to be Drunk Straight
The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace--bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one...
03110 – Chasing Perfection
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
02978 – Be Careful!
We must be careful not to let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
02866 – Shoes & Church Services
A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice.... The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.
02864 – 12-Step Spirituality’s Transformative Power
Twelve-Step spirituality rediscovered the real transformative power that is the core of the Gospel. It is the spirituality of imperfection that Jesus taught, Paul clarified, Francis and Clare lived, and Thérèse of Lisieux brought to light for the modern world....