See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.

Come in the evening come in the morning Come when expected come without warning Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you And the oftener you come the more we'll adore you.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

Everything does go in a circle.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved.

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.