“Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred”

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Differences will always exist, but division doesn’t always have to result.

We live by faith. We love by faith.

Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

Trust God to take care of you in all circumstances. Do you realize what the enemy will lose if you surrender and trust God?

If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn’t wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.

You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.

Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we’re dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.

The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn’t want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.