What we live in the most intimate places of our beings is not just for us but for all people. That is why our inner lives are lives for others. That is why solitude is a gift to our community, and that is why our most secret thoughts affect our common life - Henry Nouwen
God many times will take you where you do not want to go, in order to produce in you that which you could never get on your own - Paul Tripp (Matt 14:22-33)
The one thing that will be most obvious about you to your people will be your touch or lack of touch with God. Your private hunger of God might not be the subject of every sermon but the power behind everything you say - Calvin Miller
An old Scottish pastor after 40 years of hard ministry said to me, βBrian, the goal of every pastor is that we die in our old age with a peaceful, but broken heart.β
Captures the call of a pastor so beautifully.