That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
Instead of loving the Trinity of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), we tend to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I.
When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'
To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.
Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.
We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord. . . until we look upon the Lord. . . until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?
God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you. . . but who desperately needs Christ in you.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
Failure is life's magnifying glass.
I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you. Right now I am working on my career and trying to be genuine to my work. If you respect what you have got, God will give you what you need.