“When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.”

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that’s what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.

God’s highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

You’re special-not because of what you have. You’re special because of who you are.

The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.

With all these past fears still written on my skin, it bruises me to let you in. Trauma’s that this body holds, still guard these tactile lips untold.

I’m not a security-type person: I don’t want to have bodyguards around me. I’m not into all that.

I’m not a security-type person, I don’t want to have bodyguards around me. I’m not into all that. Now we just chill in the house. There are a lot of times when we want to go out, but we just don’t.

We have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

If your guard is up, let it down. If you’ve constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don’t forget who that wall also prevents from getting in – the good guys.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.