“Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.”

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, “I can clean that if you want.” And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

Here’s what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.

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.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we’ll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.