“Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.”

God doesn’t need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God’s way to grow Christians.

And dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

The reason that so many times we don’t win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

A healthy person can accept criticism.

But the consecration that doesn’t reach your purse has not reached your heart.

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn’t necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you’ll be able to bear it.

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament.

What you are alone is what you are.

It doesn’t matter if you please the whole world and don’t please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn’t matter whom you displease.

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.

I’ll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn’t that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard.

“But the word of the Lord endures forever”

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.

When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.