When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we’re under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be.
September 7, 2010
Latest September 7, 2010 Quotes
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it’s exhilarating if you sense you are growing.
In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question than we do from learning the answer itself.
Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you…out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn’t have gone to intentionally.
Surrender comes when you no longer ask, ‘Why is this happening to me?’
We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They’re all refining moments. You’re constantly refining yourself and refining your life.
I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don’t know.
The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.
Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul . . . To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one’s own heart.
First, be. Second, love. Finally, worship. We may find it’s possible that if we do just one of those things completely we have done all three.
