“God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.”

You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn’t lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.

If God’s people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be – it must be – compassion.

The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith – which He has given – and then push it open and walk through.

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you’re too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.

I’ve always been a worker. I’ve never expected be given anything.

A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can’t expect them to keep it real with you. In this industry people just want to be famous and they forget how to keep it real and they forget to give credit to the people who helped them get to where they at.

The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

I was expecting it to be cynical because I’m like that myself. I wouldn’t want it to be all roses because life isn’t like that.

Pain made me grow in the most unexpected places. And now I know what it feels like to be a wildflower.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I’ve never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.