Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>