View your life with kindsight. Stop beating yourself up about things from the past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking "What was I thinking?" breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, "What was I learning?"
When we begin to shift our thinking away from only making our life better to making the world a better place for all God's children, we stop believing the lie that their gain is our loss.
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than how you think it should be.
A pastor of a small church would occasionally call on one gentleman to pray, and every time this one particular guy would pray, he would end with the strangest statement, “And, oh Lord, prop us up on our leaning side.” Finally, the pastor pulled him aside, and he...
Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.
The spiritual stature of a person's life is measured by love, which in the end remains “the criterion for the definitive decision about a human life's worth or lack thereof”. Yet some believers think that it consists in the imposition of their own ideologies upon...
We cannot solve our problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.
Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea...
The Christian story did not drop from heaven fully written. It grew and developed year by year over a period of forty-two to seventy years. That is not what most Christians have been taught to think, but it is factual. Christianity has always been an evolving story....