Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is an excellent way to stand out for Christ at home, in the workplace, and even at church. Today, complete each one of your tasks, however big or small, with diligence.

Perhaps God brings us to the end of our resources so we can discover the vastness of His.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Believers have not been distinctly guided to see that nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, so that God may be all…

Without faith... nothing is possible. With it... nothing is impossible.

The Son of God became the Son of man so that the sons of men might become the sons of God.

What seems too difficult for us is a sure sign that it belongs to God.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wideopen heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

The whole concept of God taking human shape had never made much sense to me. That was because, I realised one wonderful day, it was so simple. For people with bodies, important things like love have to be embodied. That's all. God had to be embodied, or else people with bodies would never in a trillion years understand about love.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

The person rowing the boat seldom has time to rock it.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

The Spirit of God will not lead a man where the grace of God cannot keep him.

If we would learn from our prosperity, we would not need so much adversity.

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.

If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

The point of having an open mind, like having an open mouth, is to close it on something solid.

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The refiner is never very far from the mouth of the furnace when His gold is in the fire.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

As I was returning to earth, I realized that I was a servant - not a celebrity. So I am here as God's servant on planet Earth to share what I have experienced that others might know the glory of God.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with Him.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.