Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.
Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.
We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.
If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.
Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God.
It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.
For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now. "
I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.