You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

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?

While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do.

Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.