Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

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

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.