The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.

Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . .

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.