“In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.”

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.

If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth. If Jesus is king in my heart, then the Kingdom of God is in me.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

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

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

Gods plan isn’t a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life’s purpose: Ask God.

Don’t’ call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Most of the time, it’s your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you – your relationship with God.

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit…

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

The thing worth holding onto would not have let go.

Once they show you their true color, paint them grey.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.