“Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Today is the day my “handouts” are due to the conference organizers (the conference I’m speaking at April 6 in Portland, OR). As I race to finish them, these words from Von Goethe resonated with me. They made … Read more
“Knowing how susceptible we are to success’s siren call, God does not allow us to see, and therefore glory in, what is done through us. The very nature of the obedience He demands is that it be given without regard to circumstances or results.” –Charles W. Colson This flies against so much of what is … Read more
“When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, ‘Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.’ And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, ‘Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.’” -Kahlil Gibran Gibran is one of my all time favorite poets. As I reread his … Read more
“The question is not whether the things that happen to you are chance things or God’s things because, of course, they are both at once. There is no chance thing through which God cannot speak—even the walk from the house to the garage that you have walked ten thousand times before, even the moments when … Read more