Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.