You need to have sufficient resources against your priorities. Your eyes have to be open every day.
God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.
When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.
The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.
Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
And here is one choice that our Father wants us to understand as Christians – and I believe this is the choice of our age: Do we want to be brave or safe? Gently, lovingly, our heavenly Father wants us to know that we simply can’t be both.
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.
Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.
The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.