It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God was always intended to serve the primary activity: to love God and enjoy Him forever. When that is primary, the secondary becomes a labor of love, a joyful, and "easy" burden to bear. (Matthew 11:28-30