Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.

Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.