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

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

If you don’t live by the praise of men you won’t die by their criticism.

Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

We don’t believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people’s lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, ‘on earth as it is in Heaven.’

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.

Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.

To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won’t have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.

I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.