The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.

There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it's optimal level. Go to sleep!

May you have fresh strength in the spring season.

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a person with a new culture, and different web of relationships, then they will absorb new habits of thought and behavior in ways you will never be able to measure or understand. And if you do surround that person with a new, enriching culture, then you had better keep surrounding them with it, because if they slip back into a different culture, and most of the gains will fade away.