Character begins with the little things in life. I must show that I can be trusted with each and every thing, no matter how trivial it may seem.
“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Scripture says there’s great strength in human weakness. Our frailty and inabilities highlight God’s perfect strength. Jesus himself is the ultimate example of finding strength in weakness. He was fully God and fully human, yet he came down to serve others and sacrifice himself for us. What appeared to be a moment of weakness for him was actually the strongest moment in history. He gave his life for us—not because he had to, but because he chose to, because he loves us. When we are at our most vulnerable, that’s when we tend to pray and ask God for help. Why don’t we pray like that when things are going well? It’s because we think we can do it on our own and through our own strength. In reality, however, we are strongest when we are weak, because that’s when we turn to God and put our trust in him. It seems counterintuitive, but I knew that my greatest strength would come not when I thought I had it all together but when I knew how much I needed God—whether things were going well or not. Grasping these foundational biblical concepts and applying them revolutionized my life—and my career.”
― Believe It: My Journey of Success, Failure, and Overcoming the Odds
― Believe It: My Journey of Success, Failure, and Overcoming the Odds
“Compassion is an astoundingly, frustratingly affirming force. It Loves the other enough to find beauty and meaning in what the rest of us lazily judge as good or bad. Ahava Love, the brand that has the other’s interests more in view than its own preferences being perfectly tended to, searches and finds the thing to celebrate.”
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
“Desperation yields dependency, and dependency yields power. And as you decrease your earthly abilities through sacrifice and embracing less, you’ll see your spiritual fruit increase.”
― Enough: Finding More by Living with Less
― Enough: Finding More by Living with Less
“It’s helpful to think most of my withheld forgiveness and grace toward others can legitimately be catalogued as idolatry. What else is it when I expect you to cure me of my anxiety and work miracles so that I might have my happiness back? Is there anything as unloving, or as crazy, as holding you to a standard I know you can’t reach and then blaming you for my sense of disappointment afterward?”
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
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