Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong

God planned for our lives to connect. Let's make sure we keep it that way.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Shut off the internal bashing.

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

If the grass is greener on the other side it's probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.