“Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.”

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.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. Its an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely . . . .

My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going ‘straight,’ but I was just getting weirder – at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. … But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.

So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.

We are all made of air There’s stars in my eyes and there’s sun in my hair And I’m runnin’ away, it makes me feel better