He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God.