“God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don’t feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!”

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

You’re never without hope, because you’re never without prayer.

Focus on giants – you stumble. Focus on God – Giants tumble.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.

God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue… He is able to do what you can’t. He already has a plan. God’s not bewildered. Go to Him.

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

Meet your fears with faith.

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

If today were your last, would you do what you’re doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

Don’t measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

Don’t get mad. Get everything. – (on divorce).

Nothing separates a woman or a family from God’s love. Not death, and certainly not divorce.

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

I never thought I would be divorced.

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.