“God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.”

Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head, and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you’ll be ruled by what other people think of you.

The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn’t just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.

Getting healthy isn’t just about losing weight. It’s not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It’s about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change – spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.

God, I want to see You. God, I want to hear You. God, I want to know You. God, I want to follow hard after You. And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You.

Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived.

I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I’m not.

Love isn’t what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.

Remember: even the smallest drop of God’s strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.

Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

Just because we feel offended doesn’t mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

The one who obey’s God’s instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let’s park our minds in God’s truth.

God is good to me, even when life doesn’t feel good to me.

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness.

All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.