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Loving and forgiving God, we confess that we find it easier to follow the crowd than to follow you. We seek the praise of other humans, rather than seeking to give you joy with our faithfulness. When ...

Loving God, we confess today: We don’t even know what love truly is. We talk about love when we talk about favorite television shows and foods. We talk about love as if it happens to us. We describe l...

In the first chapter of her book, Get Out of Your Head , author Jennie Allen shares a vulnerable and honest moment from her own life about just how hard it can be to focus in a world of distraction...

The more one probes the workings of an emotional life the more he will be convinced of its vacillation and undependability. No one should wonder that a child of God who walks by emotion rather than by...

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Fools are without number.

Only a fool thinks he can fool God.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Twenty-five years ago, when I was just getting started, vulnerability was not a high value. Things have changed. But with a higher value on transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability in the church,...

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Forgiveness vacillates like this. It has fits and starts, good days and bad. Anger intermingled with love. Irregular mercy. We make progress only to make a wrong turn. Step forward and fall back. But ...

If you keep a bow always bent, it will break presently; but if you let it go slack, it will be the fitter for use when you want it.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Doubt is not unbelief, but it is not faith either. It wavers between faith and unbelief, unable to make up its mind what it wants to be. It is like the hitchhiker who was thumbing a ride with his hand...

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive ner...

Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding...

The so-called innocence of children is more a matter of weakness of limb, than purity of heart.

What Jesus also didn’t do was wear his emotions on his sleeve. I brought my kids up with a mantra: Don’t litter your food; don’t litter your mood. In Edward Docxs Self Help, one of the most interestin...

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

It is human to err, it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Faith isn’t a feeling; it’s a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain.

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

The more complicated the landscape, the more the wanderer relies on patience. The more confusing the scene, the more tolerant his outlook becomes. He not only has an awareness of his own ignorance, bu...