Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
From Luke 6:27-28: “But I say to you that listen, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.”
There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of Bread.
From Matthew 5:6: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
The thing that preserves a man from panic is his relationship to God.
From Proverbs 12:25: “Anxiety weighs down the human heart, but a good word cheers it up.”
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
The deep roots never doubt spring will come.
One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.
The deep roots never d
oubt spring will come.
One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.
When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.
From Colossians 2:6-7: “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.”
There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.
I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
This abandon to the love of Christ is the one thing that bears fruit in the life, and it will always leave the impression of the holiness and the power of God, never of personal holiness.
From 2 Corinthians 5:14-15: “For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. And He died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and was raised for them.”
You are already the awakeness that you seek.
You don’t have to join a monastery, or practice in a cave to discover the well-being, clarity, and open hearted awareness that is already within you.
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
From 2 Chronicles 31:20-21: “Hezekiah did this throughout all Judah; he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God. And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God, and in accordance with the law and the commandments, to seek his God, he did with all his heart; and he prospered.”
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