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

Be patient. God is using today’s difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

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!

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren’t praying. When we pray, we aren’t worrying.

What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen.

Don’t be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

God’s mercies are new every morning. Receive them.

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.

A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God’s high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.

You may go days without thinking of God, but there’s never a moment when He’s not thinking of you.

Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God’s Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.