Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy.
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.