From Calvin Miller… People are unreasonable,illogical and self-centered.Love them anyway. If you do good, people willaccuse you of ulterior motives.Do good anyway. If you are successful, you winfalse friends and true enemies.Succeed anyway. The good you do todaywill be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway. Honesty and franknessmake you vulnerable.Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend […]
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“You help people when they need help, not when you are ready to help them.” “You can be relaxed and dedicated. Just because you worry more, doesn’t mean you care more.”
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
There are no freeloaders in heaven. “She didn’t believe it was how high you jumped for joy in church,” said the Rev. Ed Matthews, Clinton’s pastor when she lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1990s, “but what you did when you came down.” re: Hillary Clinton’s faith …the Democratic nominee has adopted a Methodist […]
Original version by Dr. Kent Keith The version found written on the wall in Mother Teresa’s home for children in Calcutta: People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends […]
Six Things to Remember when you’re discouraged in pastoral ministry… It doesn’t take long into every new year for discouragement to make a visit to the pastor’s heart. The excitement and freshness is soon replaced with anxiety, discouragement, and weariness. Those are normal feelings, not abnormal. You’re not a bad leader or a bad pastor just because […]
Blaise Pascal in the 16th century? This marvelous French Christian had an insight into the unflappability of the early church. In his statement he says: ”Do great things as though they were small because of Jesus Christ and do small things as those they were great because of Jesus Christ.”
“Albert Schweitzer, the German medical missionary, described at his hospital in the African jungle. He did not hire idealists for that hospital, nor did he hire people who had a righteous sense of how much they were giving to the world. He certainly did not hire people who set out “to do something special.”He only […]
Rodney Stark: “To cities filled with the homeless and impoverished, Christianity offered charity as well as hope. To cities filled with newcomers and strangers, Christianity offered immediate basis for attachments. To cities filled with orphans and widows, Christianity provided a new and extended sense of family. To cities torn by violent ethnic strife, Christianity offered […]