Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.
God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission. . . Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave us something to aspire to. They were people that we described as having dignity and character. That's all gone now, particularly the upper levels of the Democrat Party. There isn't any of that kind of decency, dignity, character, morality.
My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.