Sublime

God is continually looking for ordinary people such as John who are willing to let him use them to make a difference

When you walk close with God, the

His blue eyes seemed to be seeing beyond the locked and crowded room, beyond Haarlem, beyond earth itself, as he quoted from memory: “Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. . . . Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. . . .”

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”—

The cliché is true: People don’t care what we know until they know we care.

There are few things more devastating than to have

Les Stobbe, Max Lucado, Charlie Wetzel, Les Parrott, Bob Buford,

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my teaching in your hearts; do not fear the reproach of others, and do not be dismayed when they revile you.