If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

The more you notice the love, the miracles and the beauty around you, the more love comes into your life.

The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

All things are important to Elôm, even the little things.

Everyone is pretty enough in the dark, ”she whispered.“No, they are not.” He kissed her beforepulling back abruptly, willing himself to stop.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

I don't need sound to talk to me.

China is committed to work with other countries for a solution to the global challenge of energy and resources.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.