Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.
If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.
Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.
When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.