Compassion
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Teresa Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort. Samuel Chadwick “We must feel toward our people as a father [...]
Gentleness
The higher people are in the favor of God, the more tender they are. Martin Luther Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. Francis de Sales Rudeness, yelling, anger, and swearing are a weak man’s imitation of strength. Author Unknown Perhaps no grace is less prayed for, or less cultivated [...]
Forgiveness and Forgiving
Whenever I see myself before God and realize something of what my blessed Lord has done for me at Calvary, I am ready to forgive anybody anything. I cannot withhold it. I do not even want to withhold it. Martin Lloyd-Jones The best testimony that Stephen bore was his last: not when preaching and [...]
Pain
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C.S. Lewis The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. Henry Ward Beecher When one is in very great [...]
Grace
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is the glue.” -Eugene Gladstone O’Neill “Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes” –Martin Luther “We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.” -Bo Lozoff “Lord I crawled across the [...]
