The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

When we are made right with God, we begin to think right, we begin to talk right, and we begin to act right.

Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.

I'm jealous. I'm mad. I feel bad. But one day, I woke up and I thought, you know what? This is wearing me out. And I'm not getting anywhere. So, I decided that even though I did not have a good beginning, I made a decision that I was going to let go of what lies behind and I was going to have a great finish.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid