It’s not about me.
If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.
To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
I don’t know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God’s purposes for your life.
Every church could put out a sign “No perfect people need apply. This is a place only for those who admit they are sinners, need grace, and want to grow.
Put Jesus Christ in the driver’s seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel.
This is the paradox: victory comes through surrender. Surrender doesn’t weaken you; it strengthens you. Surrendered to God, you don’t have to fear or surrender to anything else.
Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.
While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity.
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character.
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.
In God’s eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
If you’re alive, there’s a purpose for your life.
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.