“Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we’ve made the wrong plans.”

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

God is always better than he has to be. You can count on that.

Every single thing you’ve been through in your life has had a purpose.

Never will He hold your hand more tightly than when He is leading you through the dark.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

I don’t know how, but I know Who.

When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.