“Nails didn’t hold God to a cross. Love did.”

If your God is mighty enough to ignite the sun, could it be that He is mighty enough to light your path?

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, “Do you like it? I did it just for you.”

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

When grace moves in guilt moves out.

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, “I can clean that if you want.” And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

Here’s what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that’s what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.

God’s highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

You’re special-not because of what you have. You’re special because of who you are.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn’t pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

You’ve never gone too far that God can’t redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Since God made us originals, why stoop to be imitations.

You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.