discipleship

The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.

Battling busyness is a community response.

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.

Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.

Shame and suffering, as St. Bernard says, are the two ladder-uprights which are set up to heaven, and between those two uprights are the rungs of all virtues fixed, by which one climbs to the joy of heaven_ In these two things, in which is all penance, rejoice and be glad, for in return for these, twofold blisses are prepared: in return for shame honour; in return for suffering, delight and rest without end.

One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.