Wounded and nearly blind with fear, I clung to the Scriptures:
'Ask and you shall receive...'
'Pray without ceasing...'
'I will do whatever you ask for in My name...'
Grimly, I shut out another verse, this one from the book of Job: 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Stichwörter: scripture
Good medicine always tastes bad.
Ron HallStichwörter: medicine
You was the onlyest person that looked past my skin and past my meanness and saw that there was somebody on the inside worth savin...We all has more in common than we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.
Ron HallStichwörter: inner-nature
But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.
Ron HallThe pain of losing Deborah still brings tears. And I cannot mask my profound disappointment that God did not answer yes to our prayers for healing. I think He's okay with that. One of the phrases we evangelicals like to throw around is that Christianity is 'not a religion; it's a relationship.' I believe that, which is why I know that when my faith was shattered and raged against Him, He still accepted me. And even though I have penciled a black mark in His column, I can be honest about it. That's what a relationship is all about.
Ron HallStichwörter: relationships-with-god
Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: "To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.
Ron HallStichwörter: life art difference
If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down.
We'd shut down hunger.
We'd shut down loneliness.
We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.
Stichwörter: change christian hunger homeless
If the devil ain't messin with you, he's already got you. If you is waitin to clean up your own life before you get out and help somebody else, you may as well take off your shoes and crawl back in the bed 'cause it ain't never gon' happen. Jesus don't need no help from no perfect saints. If He did, He wouldn't a' gone up yonder and left us down here in charge.
Ron HallI thank God today she found the courage in her heart to love me enough so that someday I could tell you that even a black ex-con from Angola that stabbed a man could maybe someday do some good in the world if he gets a chance.
Ron HallStichwörter: love change chance
Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.
Ron HallStichwörter: life understanding
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