The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

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.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.