Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

Knowledge is the ultimate secret of courage.

We do have the ability to manifest things, but our purpose, our end, our legacy is alsocontrolled by our destiny. So focus on what comes easy—that is your destined life.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day

Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.