“You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.”

Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it’s enough for me that He knows about them. That’s why He sometimes shows us things, you know – to tell us that this too is in His hands.

You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

Simplicity lies right in front of you. You can make it as complex as you like.

Your joy lies within you.

Beauty now lies behind some of the deepest of scars where pain once called home.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Mirrors are used in magic to distort what we see. They are the love child of illusion, lies, tragedy.

I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.

Feel lost in the magic we call life. Feel humble in the miracles of success. Feel grateful in what lies beneath our failures. For our sun shines only to rise again.

When we shrug and say we don’t care, it’s usually a lie. Every girl cares. We’ve just been taught not to expose ourselves by showing it. What the world needs now is girls and women who aren’t afraid to care – who are done saying, ‘Whatever.’