Don’t waste life constantly reacting, constantly defending yourself and trying to talk people into a different view of you. People are overwrought & need targets for their stress & anger & a cover for their fear. Have compassion. Live your vapor-short life...
Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have this day done one thing because He said, "Do it," or once abstained because He said, "Do not do it." It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do...
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God's will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you - try to share some of their...
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
Have you ever considered that God has fallen in love with you...? He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you sunshine every morning. Whenever you want to talk he listens to you. He can live anywhere in the universe, but he chose you, your heart. God didn't...
I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.
Saying yes to the calls tends to place you on a path that half of yourself thinks doesn't make a bit of sense, but the other half knows your life won't make sense without. from Callings
Love came down at Christmas,love all lovely, love divine;love was born at Christmas--star and angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead,love incarnate, love divine;worship we our Jesus--but wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token,love be yours and love...
A Christlike life is to live for something bigger than yourself...it's a life that is broken open and poured out for your neighbor.
Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.