If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose

Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.

I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.

Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.

All fruitfulness flows from intimacy.

You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

His being there was stirring up a lot of memories she'd have been happier to leave as sentimental sediment. Not that they weren't good memories. That was the trouble.

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?

The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.