God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.