Jars of Clay

“If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thingthey can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued bymistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’thave to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repairtheir own confidence.”
- Carol S. Dweck, Mindset

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You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered usamong the nations. You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing fromtheir sale.
- Psalm 44:11-12

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The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves andyouthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming thechronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, thedrabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment withwhich we teach them to respond to it—all this provides admirable opportunitiesof wearing out a soul by attrition.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered assheep to be slaughtered.
- Psalm 44:22

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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are inChrist Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives lifehas set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Romans 8:1-2

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For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us aneternal glory that far outweighs them all.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17

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What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God isfor us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave himup for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us allthings? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is Godwho justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus whodied—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and isalso interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shalltrouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?As it is written:’ “For your sake we face death all day long; we are consideredas sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more thanconquerors through him who loved us.
- Romans 8:31-37

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“Will McClay, the Cowboys’ vice president of player personnel,told USA TODAY Sports as he observed from the sideline during a practice. “His Negative is his height, but it’s really his super-power because of all the other things about his game that have gotten better because he’s lacking something.”
– USA Today