The wisdom of repaying evil with good is that it creates the only possibility for evil to be truly overcome. It’s why wisdom wages the counter-intuitive war of love.
Life’s truest treasures, like wisdom, gain their value from the worth conferred on them by their holder rather than by their purchase price.
Our chief calling and highest ambition is to apply ourselves to understanding and appropriating and creatively enacting the meaning of these five words, “As I have loved you.”
Humility frees me to not only embrace myself but to accept others.
Jesus is not looking for those who pledge to become loyalists but for those who will not stop until their entire existence is defined by the capital L Love of God. That’s what it takes to be a disciple maker.
We are prone to think of insight as some kind of mystical quality possessed by the few. The truth is that insight comes to those willing to take the time to “see into” something or someone.
Jesus is not looking for those who pledge to become loyalists but for those who will not stop until their entire existence is defined by the capital L Love of God. That’s what it takes to be a disciple maker.
Pride leads to humiliation, which is involuntary humility. The only remedy? Voluntary humility.
Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid. (Anglican Collect of Purity)
When we “commit to the Lord whatever we do,” it brings us into the kind of relationship with God whereby we make our plans from a posture of wisdom.
Gentleness does not mean conflict avoidance. It actually shows up in the way one engages conflict.
Jesus is not looking for those who pledge to become loyalists but for those who will not stop until their entire existence is defined by the capital L Love of God. That’s what it takes to be a disciple maker.
