discipleship

Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses

watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

Don't sweat the small stuff" doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. _ Bill Klein

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.