“Prayer pushes us through life’s slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.”

Don’t worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It’s not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us.

Don’t quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

Find joy in the ordinary.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!

When you’re full of yourself, God can’t fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

Be patient. God is using today’s difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don’t feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren’t praying. When we pray, we aren’t worrying.

What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Remember, in life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.

Invited or not, God is present.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

I was raised to believe that you’re safe in God’s hands. But I don’t feel safe with myself.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

You’re going to see the goodness of God in ways you’ve never seen.