Your greatest fulfillment in life will come when you discover your unique gifts and abilities and use them to edify others and glorify the LORD.

We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity.

When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

Being filled and led by the Spirit may take you places you never planned; but the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

Books are a stairway to knowledge

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!