We can influence the other person through our words and silence, but we can never control the outcome.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. Help us to choose patience over making a point, and your Word over our feelings. Lord, help us to choose persev...
Love powers my heart and color powers my soul.
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.