Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Even if all communication from everyone is followed, yet one cannot please everyone.

Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.

Power of persistence can overcome any obstacles.

Nissa, you have a kind and bold heart, Follow it, and you will never go astray.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.