Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
Max LucadoRead
Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.
Interpretation
Focusing on the larger, eternal questions helps clarify the smaller, everyday issues we face in life.
Max Lucado's quote suggests that when we contemplate the profound and eternal questions of existence, our immediate concerns and challenges seem less significant. By seeking answers to the bigger questions about purpose, meaning, and our place in the universe, we can gain a clearer perspective on the day-to-day obstacles and worries that occupy our minds.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a community event, this quote can highlight the importance of focusing on larger life goals.
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia
When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They would say: Hast Thou not brightened our faces? Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire? He would lift the veil, and of things given to them nothing would be dearer to them than the sight of their Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.
Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.
Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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