The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.
Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.
Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.
I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we’re really committed to Him. But what if it’s designed as God’s way of giving us what’s best for us?
If you're not dead. . . you're not done.
Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.
There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.
Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.