top of page
.png){kind=small}
"What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus."
Standard
Customized
More
"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Drop your masks and just be yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness."
Faith
"The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi."
Spiritual
"Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting myself in the head in some strange time warp where the bullet takes many years to finally reach its target."
Addiction
"The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient."
Theology
"Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.If you reject the ragamuffin gospel and turn your back on Christianity, do so because you find the answers of Jesus incredible, blasphemous, or hopelessly hopeful."
Suffering
"Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ."
Faith
"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self - absorption and self - sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed."
Fear
"Though lip service is paid to the gospel of grace, many Christians live as if only personal discipline and self - denial will mold the perfect me. The emphasis is on what I do rather than on what God is doing. In this curious process God is a benign old spectator in the bleachers who cheers when I show up for morning quiet time."
Faith
"In my experience, self - hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit."
Healing
"The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit salvation. Yet they opened themselves to the gift that was offered them. On the other hand, the self - righteous placed their trust in the works of the Law and closed their hearts to the message of grace."
Consequence
bottom of page