Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

To live is to be haunted.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

Statesmen remember things selectively.