Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.
The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.
Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.
Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.
Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.
We owe the world an encounter with God
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And young people are going out, spending what little they have to try to buy themselves when they don't have themselves, or they feel like they don't have themselves. To me, that's like a damn pimp tragedy.