God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.--------------------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: God never said that the journey would be easy, but God did say that the arrival would be...
Personally, I don't think I've ever heard the devil's voice before; but if I have, it bears a really strong resemblance to my own. It is the taunting voice always hovering in the periphery in my head, waiting for me to make a mistake so it can pounce on the failure...
In the stew of everyday problems and ordinary life tasks we gain opportunities to do something about them. This, combined with the cultivation of our talents as we discover them, helps us arrive at our callings. We find ourselves summoned to make something better, to...
We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse,...
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can be is worth the trying.
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.
Carlo Carretto, one of the great spiritual writers of our time, once spent a number of years living by himself, as a hermit, praying in the Sahara desert. When someone asked him what he thought he heard God say to him in all that silence and after all that prayer,...
There is in all true church music a spirit of adoration, aspiration and reverence, and a sense of assurance. To aid the soul to become more keenly and deeply conscious of itself, its supreme personal quality, its high and enduring worth, is the ideal of church music....
Language patterns do not finally change until we use new patterns enough for them to sound natural and normal. That takes effort, and it takes a conviction that such changes are worth the effort.