What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.
You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Retiring is getting ready to die.
A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U. S. air travel the most congested in the world.
I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"