“You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.”

Whenever you say ‘yes’ to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your ‘yes’ is worth the less.

Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.

God’s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God’s words lead to life.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it – but they already are! They want to see us get real.

While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

God is faithful. God is faithful. 400 years might go by, but never count God out.

It’s time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.

We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

The Word of God isn’t for one particular season. It’s for every season. But in its specific application, it’s best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

The wonderful living Word of God is more precious than anything else that we have.

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

God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn’t call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.

I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.

I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.

And no one lifts a hand.

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.