Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.
Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.
You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.