Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.