Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
The most frequent promise in the Bible is 'I will be with you.'
Love grows when people serve.
If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
Your Mission starts where you are, Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.