“The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.”

The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn’t done. If you can’t see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

People follow courage, not titles.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn’t said.

We all remember things, it’s what we remember that determines how we live.

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don’t remain a novice.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn’t want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

Flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

In any art, you don’t know in advance what you want to say – it’s revealed to you as you say it. That’s the difference between art and illustration.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

Action illustrates desire.

I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.