“We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.”

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

The past is over forget it. The future holds hope reach for it.

The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.

God doesn’t work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God’s responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have – even if it’s no more than a sack lunch.

Friends make life a lot more fun.

We aren’t just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

I do what I like now. I just don’t have time for it all.

Choose to soften. Again and again and again. Despite, despite, despite.

Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.

First one must understand conditioning – only then can we speak of choice

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.