“It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.”

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

I hope you’re proud of yourself for the times you’ve said “yes,” when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Life is for service.

Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Love begins with listening.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.

When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.

Successful people just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

God is saying, “Be still and know that I am God.

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

God is on the throne. Him being for you is more than the world being against you. God won’t allow you to get into a problem that He can’t get you out of.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.