Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

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

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

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.

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."

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

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.

Let the essence of Christmas blossom within - as the countdown to Christmas begins.

Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know where ya are we' lasses

Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name.

When you're setting up your dating profile, choose the photos according to who you are today. A variety of recent shots that are a true representation of your character.

For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.