When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.

Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do.

Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.

When God has access to our heart, mind, and soul through years of fellowship and worship, He allows us to see more of His activity and to be more involved in His miraculous work.

Regardless of how badly you handled yesterday, today provides a fresh opportunity to do things right!

My mistakes were because I was selfless. I wanted to complete someone else, I didn’t think about completing myself.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available all the time!

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?" "Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione. "Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully.

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.