“We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.”

The past is over forget it. The future holds hope reach for it.

The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.

God doesn’t work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God’s responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have – even if it’s no more than a sack lunch.

Friends make life a lot more fun.

We aren’t just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don’t quit, whatever you do. Persevere.

Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.

Anything under God’s control is never out of control.

I’ve no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I’d rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.

Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body – you thoughts, your actions, your food – the thing you feed your life.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

Even the wrong people and the wrong choices can bring us to the right places.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends. I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.