If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life's journey can be different. With God's help you can begin again.

In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, 'Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.'

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

It takes suffering to widen the soul.

One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.