I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.