Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

For after all we make our faces as we go along...

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.