Mark Hart
When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'Collection: Greatness
To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.Collection: Love
If you want to love God better, hate sin more.Collection: Hate
God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.Collection: Needs
Don't make Christ ride shotgun.Collection: Christ
If you really want to change someone's life today, don't just pray for them... pray with them.Collection: Want
We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?Collection: Looks
Stress will either drive you crazy or drive you to your knees. It depends on who is in control of your life.Collection: Crazy
God made saints out of far worse people than you.Collection: People
God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.Collection: Mean
Your faith is measured by how well you love those who can't stand you.Collection: Wells
Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.Collection: Christianity
The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.Collection: Men
The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.Collection: Dirty
God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.Collection: Evil
Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close.Collection: Stills
True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.Collection: Holiness
The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.Collection: Jesus
Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.Collection: Giving
If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.Collection: Heart
You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.Collection: Saint
Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.Collection: Self
Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?Collection: New Year
Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.Collection: Prayer
The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.Collection: Atheist
The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.Collection: Boys
It's easier not to love. Beware of the easy path this day.Collection: Love Is
You can usually tell by the look on someone's face if they woke up counting their problems or their blessings.Collection: Blessing
You can't do God's will and satisfy everyone.Collection: God's Will
Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.Collection: Joy
An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.Collection: Christian
People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.Collection: Prayer
The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.Collection: Father
Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.Collection: True Friend
The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.Collection: Want
When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.Collection: Jesus
If the person who says they love you is unwilling to sacrifice for you it ain't love.Collection: Love You
I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.Collection: Children
God is holding you in His heart, right at this very moment. It's a fact that can make you feel so small yet so big at the same time.Collection: Heart
Reconciliation is the fastest way to change your life.Collection: Way
Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.Collection: Father
Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?Collection: Father
Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.Collection: Prayer
How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history.Collection: Beautiful
The miracle of Good Friday is that there was no miracle. Legions of angels stood - with swords sheathed - watching as the Son took our place.Collection: Friday
I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.Collection: Second Chance
Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.Collection: Demand
Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."Collection: Daughter
If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.Collection: Praying
It's funny how the closer you get to God, the more you realize how far you are from Him.Collection: Realizing