Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick Hippocrates
Each time you seek to change another, ask yourself this: What will be served by this change - my pride, my pleasure or my profit? Anthony de Mello, Awakening
No one ought to undertake teaching about prayer who has not spent more toil in the practice of prayer than on its principle. P.T. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer
Charles Spurgeon shares how depression manifests itself in pastoral ministry.
Your anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; but it empties today of its strength. - Alexander Maclaren, Sermon "Anxious Care"
Thomas Kelly explains how mission must be not only based on, but also conducted through, our relationship with God.
When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. Oswald... Continue Reading →
C.S. Lewis teaches us how to oppose our enemies without descending into hatred.
The Magpie 