“Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.”

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.

If you prayed as much as you worry, you’d have nothing to worry about.

There’s a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

Many people allow their need for other people’s approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won’t be here long, so don’t get too attached.

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can’t hold any back.

Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

When you use your life for God’s glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.

You can’t make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.

Even the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.

Love is a job doer and a man slayer. Both equally efficient, until the taste of it is most felt on the cold side of the ribs.