We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies

A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.

An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may!

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

The truth is in the kisses.

Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.