Failure is but the longer road to triumph.
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.
I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
In my leadership conferences, pastors ask, "Do you have a vision for my church?" Many times they want me to give them a picture of where they should go and what their church should look like. When these pastors do this, I always feel bad.
The most dramatic case is that of the Central Americans. Why are people fleeing Central America? It's because of the atrocities the U. S. committed there. Take Boston, where there's a fairly large Mayan population. These people are fleeing from the highlands of Guatemala, where there was virtual genocide in the early 1980s backed by Ronald Reagan. The region was devastated, and people are still fleeing to this day, yet they're sent back.
I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.
I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.