“Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.”

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.

If you prayed as much as you worry, you’d have nothing to worry about.

There’s a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

Many people allow their need for other people’s approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won’t be here long, so don’t get too attached.

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can’t hold any back.

Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

When you use your life for God’s glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.