I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

The day you stop loving your people, they're not your people anymore.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.