Don’t equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.
A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.
No one can pray and worry at the same time.
Focus on giants – you stumble. Focus on God – Giants tumble.
People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.
When you’re full of yourself, God can’t fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior.
God loves you because He has chosen to do so.
Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God’s forgiveness even more.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God’s forgiveness?
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.
The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don’t seek to be seen.
The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers.
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.
Nails didn’t hold God to a cross. Love did.
God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.
Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.