Sin is behovely, but all shall be well...

just the thought of some temporary discomfort was enough to keep him from the spiritual adventure of a lifetime.

God's idea of ministry training is a broken vessel. His idea of spiritual preparation is suffering, which includes rejection.

Temptations are a compliment to our power, not our weakness.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Once the fervor has passed, weakness and infidelity appear. We discover our inability to add even a single inch to our spiritual stature. There begins a long winter of discontent that eventually flowers into gloom, pessimism, and a subtle despair—subtle because it goes unrecognized, unnoticed, and therefore unchallenged. It takes the form of boredom, drudgery.

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love's service only the wounded soldiers can serve. Draw back.

If we let the Lion of Judah run loose as Lord of our lives, He will not want us to be poor, broken or sad. Yet He may allow it, knowing that in these conditions we are more likely to let Him make us rich, whole and happy.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives—the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections—that requires hard spiritual work.

Thus, our brokenness can become a gateway to new life.