The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.
Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.
In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicaed, Spirit-empowered peole. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this likfe the life and power of the Kindgom of God. It happened before, it can happen again.
I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.
When death occurs, death as you know it, the universe embraces you and takes you to its heart.
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.