It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.
If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
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.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Books are keys that open many doors.
I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He...
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred.