We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.
The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse.
My real problem was certainly decisions I made, and the optimism that I had in making them. Y'know, I mean, I lived within this kind of nimbus of optimism, that, no matter what I encountered, I would always overcome it. Well, optimism can be your worst enemy as well as your best friend, but the other side of this is, that, y'know, expenses grow. But our incomes have not.
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.