If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can't take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

I am more than my measurements. The cycle of body-shaming needs to end. I’m over it… My body is MY body. I’ll call the shots.

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

Eyes open, then," I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.