God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.
The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.
Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?
The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.
When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
The Lord doesn't expect us to work harder than we are able. He doesn't (nor should we) compare our efforts to those of others. Our Heavenly Father asks only that we do the best we can—that we work according to our full capacity, however great or small that may be.
The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.
Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.
Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.
Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.
The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.
