I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?
You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.
Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.
You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.
God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.
Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.
If people don't know me, then I don't care what they say about me.
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.