360 Quotes About Foolish

It’s not so much about the difficult place that I’m at, although that’s what’s probably got most of my attention. Rather, it’s more about how I got here. Because whatever that is, if I don’t change it I’m going to live out the whole of my life is some pretty similar places.

After I’ve played the part of ‘god’ long enough and as a result I can no longer hold myself up, it is then that I must finally quit playing the part of ‘god’ and begin the task of looking up.

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

The pit is of my own making.  The rescue is of God's love.  And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.

The word “impossible” is a word concocted by men so that we might have some tasteless verbiage to describe the way that we’ve surrendered to our limitations. But if we’re walking with God attempting to justify surrender is itself impossible, so maybe we should trash the verbiage and embrace our God.

Being lost without knowing that we’re lost means that we have no idea that we need to be found. And if you have a hard time believing that that’s just about as lost as you can get, watch the news.

God in His omnipotence says, ‘Here it is.’ And we in our ignorance say, ‘No it’s not!’ And in the end there it was, and where it is we are not.

If I end up at the edge of this cliff one more time than the number of times I’ve walked away from it, I need to burn my map, trade in my compass and ask God for a new set.

And when we stand in the middle of whatever wilderness happens to be ours, we look around and ask, what plan got us here and what plan will get us out? The former is likely the product of our ignorant contrivances, while the latter is a formulation of God's phenomenal genius. And have we ever considered that we might be in the wilderness because we’ve confused the two?