“We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God’s side.”

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be.

The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth.

When life is hard it’s easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we’d have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

The thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.

When darkness came, and it did, I learned that I can scream at the top of my lungs without making any sound at all.

It seems to me that I have found my Heaven on earth, since Heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

The opposite of growing isn’t being saved. Its finding peace.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people.

This is what the heart wants. This is what the head won’t get.