I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.
Every man is a hero or oracle to someone. And that person has enhanced value.
Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.
The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.
There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.
Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?
If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.
Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.
Nothing else matters much. . . not wealth, nor learning, nor even health. . . without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.