A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.

When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.