“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.”

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.”—Each New Day

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.