The way you see others often reveals more about you than it does about them. If all you see are flaws, the lens may need cleaning.
A heart that searches only for thorns will never stop to admire the rose.
Faith cannot be sustained by logic alone, just as love cannot survive on reason alone. Both require trust, vulnerability, and the courage to embrace uncertainty.
“You wasted my youth,” they say. But if years were lost, were they not lost by both?
Yet I wonder if two people walked the same road for years, and it led nowhere, did one waste the other’s youth, or did they both spend their youth on a future that never came?
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build the door it’s looking for.
The wise do not wait for opportunity to knock; they build the house, the door, and the road leading to it.
Visibility in church is not the same as intimacy with God.
Many are seen by the people, but few are known by God. For visibility is not intimacy, and prominence is not holiness.
They judge the past with such certainty that they
forget it was meant to be a lesson, not a
residence.
“They judge the past so badly that they stay in the past”
Learn the tongue of the people, and you will see their world clearly, both its good and its evils.
Know the tongue of men, and you will know the path around their traps.
Or plainly
He who speaks the language of the people can avoid its evils.