“Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.”

Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Change is a process not an event.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.