Don’t be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.
When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.
Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.
All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.
God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.
Worry erases the promises of God from your mind.
Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: ‘He is risen, indeed!’
Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.
Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.
When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.
Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.
Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.
I am often the brunt of my own humor.
We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.
Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity – bravery – respect – freedom – discipline – sacrifice – godliness.
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.