Tension Between Strength and Weakness

There's been real tension when people have wanted me to be strong and have refused to let me be weak; some have tempted me not to reveal my weaknesses, ...

Poverty Brings Strength

Octavius (the pagan) charges:

Look: some of you, the greater half (the better half, you say), go in need, suffer from cold, from hunger and toil. And yet ...

The Power of Individuals

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much--the companies never. It is the units, the single individuals, that are the ...

Pray for Strength

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing ...

God Is Fighting Your Battle

Mark what has been the practice of the Devil from the beginning, most cruelly to rage against God's children, when God begins to show them his mercy. ...

The Christian Anchor

If ever you have the chance to visit the catacombs in Rome, those tunnels under the ancient city, where many of the early Christians were buried, you ...

Worthless Worries

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Evaluate Where Strength Comes From

A woodpecker tapped with his beak against the stem of a tree just as lightning struck the tree and destroyed it. He flew away and said, "I didn't know ...

God Gives The Resources

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

God Is the Invisible Locomotive

On my way to a conference in Colorado, I was driving uphill along a major interstate when I overtook a freight train going the same direction at a slower ...